Zimbabwe

Natural Resources

Zimbabwe is blessed with a wide variety of natural resources such as minerals and arable land:

Diamonds (Marange Diamond Fields)
Coal
Chromium ore
Asbestos
Nickel
Iron ore
Vanadium
Lithium
Tin
Platinum group metals
Arable Land – Roughly 10% of the total land area produces:
- Tobacco (Virginia flue-cured, oriental, burley)
- Maize
- Potato
Forests:
- Teak
- Mahogany
- Leadwood
Fishing – Freshwater Fish from the following reservoirs:
- Chivero
- Manyame
- Kariba (90% of Zimbabwe’s Fish population)
- Mutirikwi

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