total) in tailoring, 6 (or 0.3%) in the processing of wine, 45 (or 1.9%) in carpentry, and the remaining few were engaged in the production of various goods. Dodoma is home to more than 52 distinct types of minerals, but local miners have had difficulty extracting them due to a lack of funding and up-to-date technical know-how. These include the copper deposits in Tambi, Kimagai, and Kinusi in the Mpwapwa District; the nickel deposits at Haneti in the Chamwino District; the manganese deposits at Kibakwe in the Mpwapwa District; the silica; the enstatite in the Mpwapwa District; the scapolite (marialite-meionite) deposits at the Rubeho Mountains. Infrastructure The Dodoma Region is easily accessible all year round thanks to its good road infrastructure relative to the rest of the country. There is efficient transfer of commodities to and from neighboring Regions. The majority of rural communities are well connected with year-round accessible roadways. The overall length of the region's road system is 8,183 km, of which 555 km are trunk highways, 1,142 km are regional roads, 3,054 km are district roads, and 3,432 km are village roads. Dodoma Region is connected by paved trunk road (T3) that starts in Dar es Salaam on the coast, passes through Morogoro, Dodoma, and Singida, and ends at the Rwanda border. In 2016, a paved trunk road (T5) to Iringa was opened. The trunk road (T5) to Babati in Manyara Region was completed as of early 2018. Dodoma lies along the Great North Road, a major infrastructural network of Africa which connects Cairo to Cape Town. The efficacy of the road network is measured by the condition of the roads during the rainy season. Dodoma Region is fortunate in that more than half (75.9%) of its total road network is either 510 km of asphalt or 1,565.2 km of gravel, both of which are open all year round, including during the rainy season.This is clear from Table 19, where passable roads are present for 2,490.1 Kilometres (50.0%) and 1,288.6 Kilometres (25.9%). The majority of the roads (1,098.1 kilometers) are in the Mpwapwa District, while tarmac roads span 110 kilometers.The smallest road network is in Kongwa, with 310 kilometers, and Chemba has the second-largest (971 kilometers). Railways There are 9 railway stations in the Dodoma Region, with the Kikombo, Ihumwa, Dodoma Urban, and Zuzu stations owned by the Dodoma City Council, the Bahi and Kigwe stations by