Mangula

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
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.

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.

According to the 1982 census, Mhangura formerly had a population of 11,175.

Zimbabwean cricketer Natsai Mushangwe comes from Mhangura.

The Mhangura Copper Mines Ltd, a subsidiary of Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, operated one of the biggest copper mine in the country here. All mining was closed in the late 1990s, due to falling prices on the world copper market.

Mhangura has become an industrial/mining ghost town, with its water, power, and sanitation infrastructure failing.

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