Dorowa (original) (raw)
Dorowa is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located 3 km south of the Save River in the Upper Save valley about 90 km west of Mutare. The village grew up around the opencast where phosphate was discovered in 1945. The mine produces all of Zimbabwe's phosphate (155,000 tonnes were mined here in 1996) . The village is a rural service centre for the Save communal land.