Kathu

Kathu is a town in South Africa, and the iron ore capital of the Northern Cape. Its name means "town under the trees", after the Camel Thorn forest it is situated in.

The town and the accompanying industrial area of Sishen came into being because of iron ore mining activity in the Kalahari — it has one of the five largest open-cast iron ore mining operations in the world. Some of the world's longest ore trains travel through harsh territory on the Sishen-Saldanha railway to offload their cargo at Saldanha Bay.

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* Official website