Kadoma, Zimbabwe

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Kadoma is a city on 1,125 m with 76 173 inhabitants ( 2002 census ), situated on road and railway line Gweru - Harare in Zimbabwe. The infrastructure of the city is good, the surrounding countryside with its rolling grasslands with forests lovely.

Kadoma is a city of mining. There are large gold mines as the Inez mine with reserves of 645 000 t at a grade of 10:12 g / t, of which 210.5 thousand ounces of gold to be extracted, and there are small gold mines that pose a problem of a special kind. On Sanyati river 92 km from Kadoma Copper ore is extracted and processed in Kadoma. The gold is washed from small miners about mercury- enriched copper plates. Dealing with mercury, especially the lack of any disposal, has now led to the central problem of the city: No clean and safe drinking water. The Quecksiberwert in the blood of the population are abnormally high. Child labor from ten years is normal, 69 percent of them suffer from chronic mercury poisoning. Otherwise, accidents in the unsecured tunnels and the Amalgamierungsstätten, respiratory diseases, malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS, the most common by far the causes of death. First of all the states in Muzvezve are fatal.

The permit area covers two zones, one south to beyond the Claw Dam addition and a north to Chakari. There, people live close to tight around their mines. There is no sanitation and water only from the river. A number of aid projects there trying to build schools and to organize medical care. But has released the ditch since the government, all met only a good cause, but does not change the reality on the ground. Kadoma is a city of the gold rush and will continue to be enforced to organized forms of degradation.