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In addition, the Malay population in the area was also mine but only in the summer and during the rainy season, they carry out work on the smelting of bijih timah. With Chinese aid, bijih timah production increased. According to records, in 1844, the tin from this area have been exported to Penang. In 1848, Long Jaafar has brought in 20 people ...
The Nama Group is a 125,000 square kilometres (48,000 sq mi) megaregional Vendian to Cambrian group of stratigraphic sequences deposited in the Nama foreland basin in central and southern Namibia. The Nama Basin is a peripheral foreland basin, and the Nama Group was deposited in two early basins, the Zaris and Witputs, to the north, while the ...
This place has two names, Setul and Mantin. Setul is the name of a certain plant (sandoricum koetjape).Setul was a town with a police station. It is not at the present town of Mantin but at the 8th mile towards Seremban (junction to Lenggeng).
The Bukit Timah Monkey Man, commonly abbreviated [citation needed] as BTM or BTMM, is a legendary creature said to inhabit Singapore, [1] chiefly in the forested Bukit Timah region. The creature is often cited as a forest-dwelling hominid or primate , and is also accounted for as being immortal; [ citation needed ] however, its exact identity ...
The Nama People (or Nama-Khoe people) are the largest group of the Khoikhoi people, most of whom have disappeared as a group, except for the Namas. Many of the Nama clans live in Central Namibia and the other smaller groups live in Namaqualand , which today straddles the Namibian border with South Africa.
The Nama assemblage is named after the Nama Group from the Tsaus Mountains of Namibia, which preserves a Late Ediacaran record of soft-bodied fossils. [3] The biota of the Namibian sites clusters with similar biotas found in the Southwestern United States, South China and British Columbia, [7] leading to a Nama assemblage being first defined by Gehling in 2001. [8]
The elongate glassy perchlet (Chanda nama) is a species of freshwater fish in the Asiatic glassfish family Ambassidae, the only species in the genus Chanda. [3] It is native to an area of south Asia from Pakistan to Burma, in the Indomalayan realm. The elongate glassy perchlet reaches a maximum total length of 11 centimetres (4.3 in).
Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO 2.It is generally opaque, but it is translucent in thin crystals.Its luster and multiple crystal faces produce a desirable gem. . Cassiterite was the chief tin ore throughout ancient history and remains the most important source of t