Mhangura

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Mhangura Mangula
Town
Mhangura Mhangura located in Zimbabwe Map
Coordinates: 16°54′S 30°09′E / 16.900°S 30.150°E / -16.900; 30.150Coordinates: 16°54′S 30°09′E / 16.900°S 30.150°E / -16.900; 30.150
Country	Zimbabwe
Province	Mashonaland West
District	Doma
Population  (1982)
• Total	11,175
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
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[]

• Zimbabwe Mining Index
• Copper mining in Africa

References[]

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