Small Scale Miners - Geopark Brandberg

When tourism shakes hands with the small mining sector, exciting projects emerge. In Brandberg West, home to impressive mountain scenery, intriguing welwitschias and the Messum Crater, the two sectors are merging to create an exciting new venture called Geopark Brandberg.

Goboboseb, a small mining site in the Tsiseb conservancy in Brandberg West, known worldwide for its fine specimens of quartz crystal, will open its mine to visitors later in the year. This will enable the miners, who depend on hard labour - and an element of luck - for survival, to receive a regular income and upgrade their facilities, while providing tourists with the opportunity to join a mining tour, have a guided village walk and even mine for their own gems with hammer and chisel.

A novel concept, Geopark Brandberg will connect local conservancies, the traditional authority and the small miners in the Brandberg West area to tourism and to the Namibian gemstone industry, adding value and creating the newest social adventure on the tourist route.

This new initiative, providing the opportunity to meet the small miners of Goboboseb and dig for your own crystals, is appropriate for a country like Namibia that has superlative sites, intriguing geology and an abundance of minerals - including an array of richly-coloured gemstones.

An off-road adventure to Brandberg West begins in Swakopmund on the road to Henties Bay, hugging the coast, veering eastwards towards the Brandberg massif. Small campsites along the way provide rustic accommodation in the fascinating landscape of table-topped mountains for those adventurous at heart.

It’s nearly time to treasure-hunt at Brandberg West. Are you ready?

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