Rutongo is a city on the outskirts of the

Kigali Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwa ...

urban area in

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

. It is about from the capital.

History

The Rutongo Mines company mined a deposit of

cassiterite Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. It is generally opaque, but it is translucent in thin crystals. Its luster and multiple crystal faces produce a desirable gem. Cassiterite was the chief tin ore throughout ancient history and remains t ...

. In 1948, in his story ''The New Congo'', the journalist Tom Marvel wrote about this "...beautiful mine, as ''Richesses of Rwanda''".; The city houses the Rutongo Major Propaedeutic Seminary.

References

Bibliography

* ''Approche socio-économique : secteur artisanal, Commune de Rutongo'', Association de coopération et de recherche pour le développement (Rwanda), 1987, 194 p.

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Kigali Province Populated places in Rwanda {{Rwanda-geo-stub