Manganese Mines, Hout Bay, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa : While exploitable manganese was known to have existed in the Cape from 1676, it was only in 1909 that the difficulties surrounding mining there had been overcome by a small company and ore was being ...
The predominant minerals in the Western Cape are exploited by open-cast mining. Limestone, clay minerals, dimension stone, diamonds, heavy minerals, glass and building sand, stone aggregate, gypsum and salt are some of the actively mined minerals in the Western Cape