Lime Acres is a town in Kgatelopele Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Lime Acres
Lime Acres Show map of Northern Cape Lime Acres Show map of South Africa
Coordinates: 28.374°S 23.461°E / -28.374; 23.461
Country	South Africa
Province	Northern Cape
District	ZF Mgcawu
Municipality	Kgatelopele
Area [1]
• Total	70.37 km2 (27.17 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	4,408
• Density	63/km2 (160/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	59.4%
• Coloured	21.8%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	18.2%
• Other	0.2%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Tswana	40.9%
• Afrikaans	40.2%
• English	6.1%
• Zulu	4.0%
• Other	8.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	8410
PO box	8410
Area code	053

Lime Acres is a mining village, and there are rich limestone deposits in the area. It is home to both PPC Lime and Petra Diamonds, was named by Eric Lowther, general manager of Northern Lime.[2] The Finsch diamond mine is situated 2 km from Lime Acres, and its employees live in the town.[2]

References

This Northern Cape location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

На других языках

[de] Lime Acres