Cape Copper Company Ltd
Registered 30th of April 1888 as a reconstruction of the Cape Copper Mining Co., Ltd. Company number 26581. Receivers appointed June 1922 and struck off the register January 1935. Capital £600,000 in £2 ordinary shares, increased December 1891 to £750,000 by the creation of 75,000 £2 cumulative preference shares, increased again in December 1913 to £950,000 with the creation of 100,000 £2 ordinary shares. Leased 164 square miles of ground in Namaqualand, South Africa.
1888