СТАРАЯ ЖД СТАНЦИЯ АРИС В САВАННЕ НАМИБИИ В ЮЖНОЙ АФРИКЕ

Video of Aris settlement and its old railway station. Aris is located 25 km south of Windhoek in central Namibia. #SouthernAfrica Aris has a school, an old railway station, two quarries and old Aris Hotel. Aris Grundschule is 25 km south of Windhoek on the Rehoboth road. The school has 170 learners from Grade 1 to 7. All the children come from the Aris vicinity. Two phonolite quarries, the Railway Quarry and the Ariskop Quarry, are located 25 km south of Windhoek, on the road to Rehoboth. The two open pits are less than 1 km apart. The Railway Quarry (west side of the road) has been inactive for the last 10-15 years, whereas the Ariskop Quarry (east side of the road) has been active during at least the last decade and was active in 2011. Most of the minerals, including the type minerals, collected in recent years came from the workings of the Ariskop Quarry. Note that each of the two quarries extracts material from a different intrusion, differentiated by its geochemical features (F. Koller, pers. comm. to U. Kolitsch, 2015). Mineralogy is somewhat similar to that of the Saint-Amable sill (Demix-Varennes quarry), Québec, Canada, the Point of Rocks phonolite in New Mexico, USA and, in part, to that of Mont Saint-Hilaire. The most notable difference between these localities is the extreme scarcity of eudialyte-group minerals at Aris. YouTube channel Exploring Namibia TV publishes four video a week: on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Themes range from...