Mhangura

Mhangura, formerly Mangula, is a small town and former mining community in Doma District, Mashonaland West Province, in northern Zimbabwe, 188 kilometres northwest of Harare. The name is Shona for red metal, a reference to copper. In the 1960s the Messina Transvaal Development Company developed the Mangula copper mines, which later passed to a state mining corporation, and about 1,500 people worked in mining at full strength. The town was known for its Copper Stars football team. Mining closed in the late 1990s on falling copper prices and the local economy collapsed. The citypopulation.de table lists 2,930 residents for the Mhangura Mine locality at the 2012 census.