SHRIMP U-Pb dating of single zircon grains from Damaran granitic rocks yielded ages of 550Ma and 540Ma for the Mon Repos diorite and Rotekuppe granite plutons respectively. Single titanite grains yielded a 500Ma metamorphic age for metalamprophyre and an identical age for quartz/skarn veins from the Navachab open pit. Aplite/pegmatite dykes that cut the mineralization give poor apparent ages between 540Ma and 565Ma with large errors. The timing of mineralization remains equivocal, either intrusive-related (550Ma), accepting the pegmatite model age, and subsequently reset by metamorphism, or directly metamorphic (500Ma).