Kadoma (Zimbabwe)
Coordinates: 18 ° 21 ′ S , 29 ° 55 ′ E
Kadoma is a city of 92,469 inhabitants (2012 census) in Zimbabwe . It is located on the Gweru - Harare road and railroad at 1,125 meters above sea level. The infrastructure of the city center is good, the surrounding area is characterized by hilly grassland with forests.
Kadoma is a mining town. There are large gold mines such as the Inez mine, which has deposits of 645,000 t grading 10.12 g / t gold from which 210,500 ounces of gold are to be extracted, and there are small gold mines. Copper ore is mined and processed in Kadoma on the Sanyati River 92 km from Kadoma. Children wash the gold over mercury-enriched copper plates. Dealing with mercury , especially the lack of any disposal, has now led to the city's central problem: no clean and safe drinking water. The mercury levels in the blood of the population are abnormally high. Child labor from the age of ten is normal, 69 percent of whom suffer from chronic mercury poisoning . Otherwise accidents in unsecured tunnels and amalgamation sites, respiratory diseases, malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS are by far the most common causes of death. The conditions in Muzvezve in particular are fatal.
The prospect extends over two zones, one south to beyond Claw Dam and one north to Chakari. There people live close to their mines. There is no sanitation and water only from the river. A number of aid organizations are trying to build schools there and organize medical care.
sons and daughters of the town
- Michael Berridge (1938-2020), British biologist
Web links
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Source for title A and title B
- Title A: Removal of barriers to the introduction of cleaner artisanal gold mining and extraction technologie in Kadoma Script , Zimbabwe. Part B: Health Assessment - By Stephan Boese-O´Reilly, Felicitas Dahlmann, Beate Lettmeier, Gustav Drasch November 2004
- Title B: A sociological survey of small-scale artisanal gold mining in the Kadoma-Chakari area - By: Celani Mtetwa and Soul Shava July 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2012 census, PDF page 8 ( Memento from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 390 kB), accessed on June 11, 2015