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Places/Boom town

Kitwe

Boom town, Zambia, founded 1936.

About Kitwe

City in Zambia.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q239580 (Kitwe)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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