Mhangura

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

Mhangura

Mangula
Town
Mhangura
Mhangura located in Zimbabwe Map
Coordinates: 16°54′S 30°09′E
Country Zimbabwe
ProvinceMashonaland West
DistrictDoma
Population
 (1982)
 • Total11,175
Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)
ClimateCwb (Subtropical highland)

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]

gollark: Your hot pockets have been harvested to use in our thermoelectric generators.
gollark: (your agreement has been harvested to fuel our bee apifiers)
gollark: I'm glad we are in agreement.
gollark: Deploy an ant crusade?
gollark: What if antimemetic bees were perpendicular to you?

See also
  • Zimbabwe Mining Index
  • Copper mining in Africa

References
  1. 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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