二十多年前,南非的矿物资源中似乎不存在锌资源。尽管曾勘探到许多锌矿床,但储量很小,没有开采价值,因此,不得不依赖进口。60年代后期,在开普省西北部发现了具有开采价值的含锌多金属硫化矿床。这些矿床的开采解决了南非锌的自给问题。矿床与储量目前在开普省西北部和北部开采的锌矿 Twenty years ago, there seemed to be no zinc resource in South Africa’s mineral resources. Although many zinc deposits have been explored, their reserves are small and have no mining value and therefore have to be imported. In the late 1960s, zinc-bearing polymetallic sulphide deposits were discovered in northwestern Cape Province. The mining of these deposits solves the problem of self-sufficiency of zinc in South Africa. Deposits and Reserves The zinc mine currently mined in the northwestern and northern Cape Province