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Tsumeb

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Tsumeb (ts`mĕb), town (1991 pop. 16,211), N Namibia. It is the commercial and distribution center for a region where copper, lead, and zinc are mined.
Tsumeb 

a city in Namibia. Population, 12,300 (1970). Tsumeb is linked by rail with the port of Walvis Bay. The country’s chief center for the mining of nonferrous ores (lead, zinc, and copper), the city has copper-smelting and lead-smelting plants.



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The Tsumeb Corporation had the heavy equipment that could have moved the Hoba to the railhead at Tsumeb; however, at that time the railroad gauge was 2 feet, with an axle loading of 4 tons, which made moving it further by rail impractical (Mason, 1996, p.
I only started to realise the fear that most people were living with on a daily basis when I had to get permits in Tsumeb and travel in convoy from Oshivelo the rest of the way.
Other major cities are Walvis Bay, Gobabis, Grootfontein, Karasburg, Keetmanshoop, Luderitz, Mariental, Rundu, Swakopmund, Tsumeb, Ondangwa and Oshakat.
 
 
 
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