Sebakwe
Coordinates: 18°53′40″S 29°48′40″E / 18.8944°S 29.8111°E
Globe and Phoenix Mine (G&P Mine) is a gold mine in Zimbabwe. It is just outside Kwekwe CBD.
G&P Mine was pegged on the site of ancient gold workings in 1894 by prospectors Edward Thornton Pearson and Joseph Schukala. The two men were shown this ancient mining place by a Shona native whose confidence they bought with two blankets.
The head works of the mine still dominate Kwekwe City which was founded from the mine's compound township which was known as Sebakwe before merging with the then Fort Kwekwe and assuming the name Kwekwe, then spelt Que Que.
G&P Mine, although it once produced the world's richest gold ore, has its palmy days over now. Other mineral found at the mine are Kermesite,Magnetite, Quartz and Stibnite.
It is located a few hundred metres from the CBD westwards.
G&P Mine was originally known as King Solomon's Mines, and the biblical Ophir where the Queen of Sheba took 450 tablets of gold which she took to Jerusalem's King Solomon, hence the nicknames "Jewellers' Shop", "Lousy with Gold" and "Too rich to be mined".
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