Antelope Mine

Antelope Mine is a 981 m high place with a population of 3,500 and a district 114 km south of Bulawayo in the province of Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe. The place is located in the semi-arid, sparsely populated south of the country on a lake that fills in the rainy season, and some irrigated fields east of it in the valley.

The result is the settlement in 1913, when gold was found there. However, the incidence in 1919 were exhausted. Nevertheless, it has remained a place of mining, because the surrounding area is promoted in the Noel mine nickel.

Gained notoriety Antelope mine in the 1980s, when the trained North Korean 5th Brigade Robert Mugabe called Kezi massacre committed during the Gukurahundi, the 20,000 Matabele fell victim who then enters the blind shafts in Antelope mine found a mass grave.

Meanwhile at Antelope Mine some tools have been found from the Stone Age.

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  • Matabele
  • Location in Zimbabwe
  • Matabeleland South Province
  • Place in Africa
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