Hwange Colliery

It was founded in 1899, Mining operations are located near Hwange (known as Wankie until 1982) in the province of Matabeleland North.

Handover station to NRZ is Thomson Junction Hwange Colliery Company Limited operate an open cast mine and underground mine.

2 colliery in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe), which was owned by the Anglo-American Corporation, Four hundred and twenty-six miners lost their lives - thirty six Europeans and three hundred and ninety Africans.

Apart from the one hundred and seventy-six Rhodesians who died, there were ninety-one Zambians, fifty-two from Mozambique, thirty-seven from Malawi, thirty Tanzanians, fourteen Britons, twelve South Africans, nine from South West Africa, four from the Caprivi Strip, and one from Botswana.

The disaster provoked reaction throughout the world, and messages of sympathy poured in from all quarters, and included those from Queen Elizabeth, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the British Foreign Secretary, The Pope, and the Prime Minister of South Africa, B. J. Vorster, it remains the deadliest mine accident to date in the country's history.