Mutorashanga

Mutorashanga is a small ferrochrome mining town in Mashonaland West province, Zimbabwe, on the Great Dyke about 100 kilometres north of Harare. Its mines are largely owned by Zimasco, a chrome company held by Sinosteel, and commercial ferrochrome mining here goes back to 1921. The town has no urban status and consists mainly of company villages, a police station, a post office and small shops, linked by one tarred mine road to the Kildonan railway siding. The district is known for its aloes, including Aloe ortholopha, which is endemic to this stretch of the Great Dyke, and for the flooded asbestos quarry called the Green Pool, popular with divers. Until 2000 the surrounding land was a tobacco and maize farming district.