Ruins of abandoned Elizabeth Bay ghost town and mine in Sperrgebiet, Namibia, southern Africa

Video of eerie ruins of abandoned ghost town Elizabeth Bay and diamond mine in Sperrgebiet (Prohibited Area), Namibia, southern Africa.
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Elizabeth Bay is a mining town in southern coast of Namibia, 25 km south of Lüderitz. It was formerly considered a ghost town. Diamonds were first discovered in the region around 1908; however, it wasn't until 1989 that the government of Namibia spent $53 million on the exploration and creation of a new diamond mine on the site. The mine had a projected life-span of ten years and was expected to produce 2.5 million cts of diamonds. The mine was officially opened by Sam Nujoma on 2 August 1991 and stopped being operational sometime around 1998. By 2000, the town was considered a ghost town and tours were run through it by Kolmanskop.
In 2005 it was announced that the mine would be expanded, thus furthering its lifespan by eight years. The mine is currently operated by Namdeb Diamond Corp. It is owned jointly by De Beers and the Namibia Government. As of 2009 the Elizabeth Bay mine was operating at a $76 million loss.
Elizabeth Bay is home to forty percent of the world's Cape fur seals.
Elizabeth Bay in media
The derelict theater building in Elizabeth Bay was filmed in a 2010 episode of Life After People: The Series which was mainly featuring Kolmanskop, another ghost town approximately 30 km north of Elizabeth Bay. The episode focused on the effects of wind and sand upon the various run-down buildings and displayed rooms that were filled with sand.
Sperrgebiet Diamond Mining, a subsidiary of the Lewcor Group, an equipment contractor to NamDeb, has taken over the ownership of the defunct Elizabeth Bay diamond mine, in Namibia in 2020.
Namdeb, a 50/50 partnership between the Namibian Government and De Beers previously owned the mine and it had been looking for the new owner of the mine since 2018.
Elizabeth Bay is located on the coastline some 25 km south of Lüderitz.
“We look forward to optimise the opportunity afforded by gaining ownership of the Elizabeth Bay Mine and its associated mining licences and will strive to successfully re-commission operations in such a way to establish a long-term plan for both onshore and offshore mining,” the new mine owner Chris Lewis was quoted as saying by Namibia Economist.
“We strongly believe in the potential of the mine, but also know that we will only be able to create value through the efforts and support from our employees, service providers, and government stakeholders.”
Namdeb was said last year to have sold the mine for $8.23 million.
It said then that the value could increase significantly in the longer term, as it will share in the revenue earned in the sale of diamonds recovered from certain marine mining areas associated with the Elizabeth Bay Mine, and which Lewcor has indicated it will bring into production in the near-term.
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