Shackleton, Zimbabwe

Shackleton is a village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe, near the Chinhoyi region.^[1]

It is known for the Shackleton Copper Mine, an underground copper mine^[1] which was established in 1960^[2] and began production in 1971.^[1] The ore is described by Mindat as "sedimentary copper deposit, hosted in calcareous argillite and arkose".^[3]

In 2000, Shackleton was shut down, as copper mining declined. Along with Mhangura, Sutton, Vanad, and Kildonan, the mining towns became ghost towns, changing from thriving communities to impoverished small villages.^[2]