Rosh Pinah

Rosh Pinah is a small Namibian mining town with a huge mining operation situated just a few kilometres north of the Orange River border with South Africa. There is not much to see here other than a few shops and a filling station. The mine here is the largest zinc mine in Africa, and also produces lead ore. The mine was opened in the year 2000 by the

Anglo American Corporation and is expected to produce more than 150000 tons of high-grade zinc ore per year for at least another fifteen years.

Just a few kilometres to the east of the town and easily reached by the road that follows the Orange River, is the Fish River Canyon. The Fish River flows into the Orange River in the Ai-Ais and Fish River Canyon Park. The canyon is 160 kilometres long and thirty wide, and the sidewalls are some 550 metres high. The canyon makes an awesome site and is bettered only by the Grand Canyon in the United States of America. There is a road that follows the eastern edge of the canyon for some 25kms that has a series of viewing sites that offer some splendid views of the canyon.

Rosh Pinah

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