In its industrial days, Hong Kong's mining industry was thriving, benefitting from the mineral occurrences that are related to the regional Mesozoic igneous and hydrothermal activities.Hong Kong was unique in the mining sector as it was so small in land mass but with such a rich variety of commodities discovered. There are records of commercial exploitation of tungsten, iron, lead, silver, beryl, graphite, quartz, feldspar and kaolin in Hong Kong before 1981. Of these, most of them are located in the New Territories.The Lin Ma Hang lead mine was operated in the 19th century by the Portuguese and was abandoned in 1958. The Needle Hill tungsten deposit was discovered in 1935 during construction of the Jubilee Reservoir. The Ma On Shan iron mine, which operated for 70 years between 1906 and 1976, was the largest mine in the history of Hong Kong. The Mui Wo lead-silver mine on Lantau Island can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty 400 years ago. West Brother Island, which extracted graphite from 1952 to 1973, was levelled in the 1990s to make way for the development of the airport at Chek Lap Kok.Nowadays, these mines are disused and abandoned, but this extended abstract reviews the legacy of the mining industry in Hong Kong to understand the impact that it had on techniques, the economy and culture.
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机译：在其工业日中，香港的矿业正在蓬勃发展，从与区域中生代的矿物发生有关的矿物事件中受益于矿业的矿物事件，而且在矿业部门是独一无二的，因为它在陆地群体如此之小，但有如此富裕发现各种各样的商品。在1981年之前，有记录钨，铁，铅，银，Beryl，石墨，石英，长石和高岭土。其中大多数位于新界。林马挂领先矿在19世纪由葡萄牙语在1958年被遗弃。在Jubilee水库建设期间，1935年发现了针山钨矿床。 1906年至1976年在1906年至1976年间运营70年来的马鞍山，是香港历史上最大的矿山。大屿山的Mui Wo Lead-Silver Mine可以追溯到400年前的明代。从1952年到1973年提取石墨的西兄弟岛在20世纪90年代均为契机在Chek Lap Kok.nowadays的发展方面，这些地雷被废弃和遗弃，但这种扩展摘要评论了采矿的遗产香港的行业了解它对技术，经济和文化的影响。
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