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.[1] The village grew up around the opencast Dorowa Mine where phosphate was discovered in 1945. The mine produces all [2] of Zimbabwe's phosphate (155,000 tonnes were mined here in 1996) .[1] The village is a rural service centre for the Save communal land.