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Madziwa Mine

human settlement in Zimbabwe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ6728892 ↗
Source-derived summary

Madziwa Mine is a village that grew up next to a gold mine of the same name in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located 32 km north of Shamva and about 100 km north-west of Harare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 4,617. The main mineral mined at Madziwa is nickel.

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“Madziwa Mine” enters the record as human settlement in Zimbabwe. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Madziwa, Mine and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Madziwa, Mine and human.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6728892. Authority coordinates are -17.067, 31.667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Madziwa Mine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.