Muzvezve

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Muzvezve is a city in Zimbabwe with 12,000 inhabitants (2006). It is located south of the city of Kadoma in the Kadoma District in the Mashonaland West Province .

It is a gold rush town and one of the problem areas of Kadoma par excellence. The Muzvezve River played a decisive role in the gold rush there, and therefore also one with a view to the mercury contamination of the surrounding area.

Muzvezve is not a city in the strict sense of the word, but a number of wild settlements like Alexander, Amber Rose, Panners and Tix on the Muzvezve River, grouped around gold tunnels. In fact, it is a suburb and prospecting area of ​​Kadoma, not an independent city - even if the very specific problems there suggest a special administration.

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  • Title a: Removal of barriers to the introduction of cleaner artisanal gold mining and extraction technologie in Kadoma, 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

Coordinates: 18 ° 26 '  S , 29 ° 57'  E