Arcturus

Arcturus is a village in Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe, lying about 32 kilometres east of Harare. At the 1982 census the village had 3,300 inhabitants, and the surrounding rural area holds roughly 20,000 more. It grew up around the Arcturus Mine and is named after it. The mine was established in 1891, began operating in 1907 and was one of the oldest and leading gold producers in Zimbabwe, and a number of smaller mines still work the district. Away from mining the countryside is principally agricultural, producing a wide variety of crops, so the settlement sits between a historic gold economy and farmland near the capital.