Shackleton

Shackleton is a village in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe, near the Chinhoyi region. It is known for the Shackleton Copper Mine, an underground mine established in 1960 that began production in 1971. In 2000 the mine was shut down as copper mining declined. Along with Mhangura, Sutton, Vanad and Kildonan, the mining towns became ghost towns, changing from thriving communities to impoverished small villages. Shackleton is therefore an example of the copper belt settlements of the province that lost their reason for existing when mining ended.