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Great Zimbabwe Ruins
Midlands & Masvingo: History & Culture
Midlands Province sits at Zimbabwe’s geographic centre, its economy built on the chrome and gold mined around Kwekwe and Shurugwi, and the platinum worked at Mimosa mine near Zvishavane. The Mberengwa Greenstone Belt preserves some of the best-developed Archaean stromatolites on Earth, fossil evidence of microbial life roughly 2.7 billion years old. Gweru, the provincial capital and Zimbabwe’s third-largest city, grew as a railway and industrial town. Nearby, Antelope Park was established in 1987 and is now home to the African Lion Environmental Research Trust’s lion rehabilitation programme.
Photo by Akumudzi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Antelope Park, Mberengwa Greenstone Belt, Shurugwi chrome hills, Gweru, Zvishavane (Mimosa platinum mine)
Heritage & Landmarks
Established 1987 near Gweru; home to the African Lion Environmental Research Trust's lion rehabilitation programme
Archaean stromatolites roughly 2.7 billion years old, among the best-preserved on Earth
One of Zimbabwe's largest chrome-mining districts, also worked for gold, in scenic hill country
Zimbabwe's third-largest city and the provincial capital, a rail and industrial hub since colonial times
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