Owned by Ongopolo Mining Ltd.
Closed in 2008 due to problems with flooding.
Note on the mineral list: Red asisite from the Kombat Mine has been erroneously sold as "chubutite" or "lorettoite".
References:
- Mineralogical Magazine: 54: 593-598.
- Mineralogical Record: 20: 481, 397.
- Innes, J. and Chaplin, R.C. (1986) Ore bodies of the Kombat mine, South West Africa - Namibia. In: Mineral Deposits of Southern Africa (C.R. Anhaesser and S. Maske, editors). Geological Society of South Africa, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, 1789-1805.
- Dunn, P.J., Francis, C.A., and Innes, J. (1988) A mcgovernite-like mineral and leucophoenicite from the Kombat mine, Namibia. American Mineralogist: 73: 1182-1185.
- Chetty, D., and Frimmel, H.E. (2000): The role of evaporites in the genesis of base metal sulphide mineralisation in the Northern Platform of the Pan-African Damara Belt, Namibia: geochemical and fluid inclusion evidence from carbonate wall rock alteration. Mineralium Deposita 35, 364-376.
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Map Reference: 19°47'S , 18°1'E
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