AFRICAN GRANITE COMPANY (PTY) LTD African Granite Company (Pty) Ltd is an exporter and supplier of premium Namibian granite for commercial and residential building projects. The company was originally established in 1988 and is registered at the Ministry of Mines and energy under the category of Stone quarrying: Dimension stone (granite, slate wonder stone) mining license numbers ML5OB and ML5OC. The registration number of the company is 88/008, P 0 Box 4055, Walvis Bay, Namibia. The company has changed ownership on 20 February 2017. The new owner is now Rl Gem 5 Traders cc. The Shareholders are: I.C Marshall, G.I Marshall and JP Mutiba Mutiba The company owns a granite quarry in the Damara region, in the Spitzkoppe area. The area is depicted as per below:
The proponent, African Granite Company (PTY) (Ltd) owns the mining licence ML50B as per the Mineral Resource Act 1992. The company thus operates in the primary sector of the Namibian economy. The mining sector constitutes 50% to the entire exports of the Namibian Economy. The Erongo region of Namibia that is well known for, Granite, Zink and Uranium. The Region is also well known throughout the world, with large Multinational entities such as China General Nuclear Corporation, the third largest producer of nuclear energy in the world operating under the Swakop Uranium Mine in the Erongo Region. The Best Cheer Group also functions in the Erongo Region that is a large Multinational Corporation that functions in the Marble and Granite Industry, extracting and refining Marble and granite for the export markets around the world.
The white variety is known as Namibian Pearl while the Damara (African Gold) Granite is yellow in colour also named Tropical Sun and the light brown as Kalahari Sand.
Data
on Namib Pearl Granite Name: Namib
Pearl Granite Catalog: Granite
Colour: White Country: Namibia
(Goas) Recommended Usage: Construction
stone,ornamental stone Additional Names: Namibian
Pearl, Goas White
Data
on Spitzkoppe Granite Name: Spitzkoppe Granite
Catalog: Granite
Colour: Yellow
Country: Namibia (Spitzkoppe, Damara, Swakopmund)
Recommended Usage: Construction stone, ornamental stone
Additional Names: Giallo Damara, Tropic Sun, Yellow
Damara, Spitzkoppe, Tropical SunSun
Testing Water Absorption: N/A Compressive Strength: N/A Density: N/A Flexural Strength: N/A Description:
Namib Pearl Granite is a White
Granite from
Namibia
NAME: Namibian Pearl / African Pearl
ROCK TYPE: Granite
COLOUR: Iridescent white LOCALITY: Spitzkoppe, 6Okni west of USAKOS
TONALITY VARIATIONTION: Medium AVAILABILITY: Good
GENERAL USES: Interior - Exterior STATUS: Active CONTACT: African Granite (Pty) Ltd
Testing Water Absorption: 0.35 %
Compressive Strength: 140 MPa
Density: 2650 kglm3
Flexural Strength: 14.3 MPa
Description
Spitzkoppe Granite is a Yellow
Granite from Namibia
NAME: Tropical
Sun I Namib Geib
ROCK TYPE: Granite COLOUR: Brownish
- yellow LOCALITY: Spitzkoppe,
60km west of USAKOS TONALITY VARIATION: Low AVAILABILITY: Good
GENERAL USES: Interior — exterior
STATUS: Active
CONTACT: African
Granite (Pty) Ltd
CONTACT US
+264 81 240 0420
+264 81 629 1605
icmarshall@iway.na
Location
USAKOS DISTRICT, ERONGO REGION, NAMIBIA
