Filabusi

Filabusi

and service centre for the surrounding mining and farming areas.

Mining in the Filabusi area is now mainly small scale gold mining. In the past, Filabusi was a major producer of gold with mines such as Fred and Royal Family, nickel at Epoch (Bindura Nickel Corporation) and asbestos at Pangani and Croft, but all these are now closed [Baglow, N. 1998. The geology of the Filabusi Greenstone Belt and surrounding granitic terrain. "Zimbabwe Geological Survey Bulletin" 91.] .

Agriculture in the Filabusi area comprises cattle ranching and small-scale farming (see photo), the latter mainly on recent resettlement land.

Filabusi town is supplied with water from a weir on the Insiza River.

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