Mhangura

Mhangura
Mangula
Town
Mhangura

Mhangura located in Zimbabwe Map

Coordinates: ZW 16°54′S 30°09′E / 16.900°S 30.150°E / -16.900; 30.150Coordinates: ZW 16°54′S 30°09′E / 16.900°S 30.150°E / -16.900; 30.150
Country Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Province Mashonaland West
District Doma
Population (1982)
 • Total 11,175
Climate Cwb (Subtropical highland)

Mhangura (formerly Mangula) is a small town and former mining community in the Doma District of Mashonaland West Province, in northern Zimbabwe.

Geography

It is located 188 kilometres (117 mi) northwest of Harare. The name was probably derived from the Shona word mhangura meaning "red metal" in reference to copper.

People

According to the 1982 census, Mhangura formerly had a population of 11,175.

Zimbabwean cricketer Natsai Mushangwe comes from Mhangura.

Mining ghost town

The Mhangura Copper Mines Ltd, a subsidiary of Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, operated one of the biggest copper mine in the country here. [1] [2] All mining was closed in the late 1990s, due to falling prices on the world copper market. [1]

Mhangura has become an industrial/mining ghost town, with its water, power, and sanitation infrastructure failing. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 New Zimbabwe.com: "Mhangura reduced to a ghost town"; 24 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Businessweek.com: Company Overview of Mhangura Copper Mines Ltd


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