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Rosh Pinah

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name	Rosh Pinah
native_name
settlement_type	Settlement
image_skyline	File:Ros Pinah Bird View.jpg
imagesize	300px
image_caption	Bird's eye view of Rosh Pinah (October 2016)
pushpin_map	Namibia
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pushpin_mapsize	300
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Namibia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Namibia
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	ǁKaras Region
subdivision_type2	Constituency
subdivision_name2	Oranjemund Constituency
leader_title1
established_title
unit_pref	Imperial
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2011
population_footnotes
population_total	2835
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
timezone	South African Standard Time
utc_offset	+2
coordinates
elevation_footnotes
postal_code_type

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a town in Namibia

Rosh Pinah is a mining town located in southern Namibia, close to the border with South Africa. It is situated 360 km south of Keetmanshoop in Namibia's ǁKaras Region. West of the town lies Diamond Area 1, the main diamond mining area of Namibia. Rosh Pinah is in the Oranjemund electoral constituency. The town is connected via road to Aus{{cite news

Copper was discovered here in the 1920s, and German-born Jew Mose Kohan discovered zinc in the nearby Hunz Mountains in 1963. He also coined the name "Rosh Pinah" which is a Hebrew term for "cornerstone". More significant deposits of zinc were found in 1968.

Rosh Pinah is home to two mines, Skorpion Zinc and Rosh Pinah mine. Both mines extract mainly zinc and lead. Like other mining towns in Namibia, the settlement was created when the first mine opened. The Rosh Pinah mine was established in 1969 and has been in continuous operation since then. Skorpion Zinc opened in 2001 and is the eighth-largest zinc mine in the world. It is the largest employer in town, providing 1,900 jobs.

The settlement is administered by the company RoshSkor (named after and co-owned by both mining operators) because it does not have its own local government authority and falls, like all Namibian settlements, under its regional administration. The town manager is Slabbert Burger. The town is economically entirely dependent on its mines which own 90% of the property and provide the vast majority of jobs. "If the mines close, Rosh Pinah will become another Kolmanskop, as we are not sustainable as a town", Burger stated in 2019. Hoeksteen Combined School and Tsau ǁKhaeb Secondary School are government schools located in town.{{cite news

Decades of mining lead and zinc have led to chronic lead exposure of Rosh Pinah's inhabitants. In 2020, a report was compiled by the company medical practitioner of the zinc mine, confirming chronic lead exposure of all 30 children that were tested. The report was not published, and the doctor was dismissed. When the lead poisoning came to light in 2023, accounts from local doctors hint at hundreds of cases over several years.

File:Rosh Pinah Orange River.jpg|Orange River near Rosh Pinah (October 2016) File:Rosh Pinah, Skorpion Airfield (2017).jpg|Rosh Pinah Skorpion Airfield (2017) File:Aussprache Rosh Pinah.ogg|Pronunciation of Rosh Pinah

References

"Table 4.2.2 Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011)". Namibia Statistics Agency.
(18 April 2008). "Small business flocks to Rosh Pinah". [[Namibia Economist]].
Tonchi, Victor L., William A. Lindeke, and John J. Grotpeter, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VUkGQ6xfYkgC&dq=%22Rosh+Pinah+mine%22+tonchi&pg=PA373 "Rosh Pinah Mine"] Historical Dictionary of Namibia. 2nd edition. (2012) Toronto: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, p. 373.
Cassidy, Joseph. (2009). "Place Names of Namibia A Historical Dictionary". Macmillan Education Namibia Publishers (Pty) Ltd.
"Rosh Pinah mine". [[Trevali Mining Corporation]].
(16 December 2011). "Glencore buys 80% of Rosh Pinah". [[Mining Weekly]].
Hartman, Adam. (May 2019). "Evolution of Namibia's mining towns". Mining Journal supplement to [[The Namibian]].
Shiku, Paulus. (2 October 2012). "Lack of Business space at Rosh Pinah". [[The Namibian]].
Alberts, Ellen. (13 July 2023). "Rosh Pinah children suffer chronic lead exposure". [[The Namibian]].
Klukowski, Steven. (12 October 2023). "Rosh Pinah lead exposure alarming". [[New Era (Namibia).

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