I could do the BCL pit again!

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SELIBE-PHIKWE: A kilometre or anything close to it is a very long way. Whether one looks at it vertically, horizontally or any other way one could think of. Now think of going down, deep down in the pit of the earth.

Selibe Shaft is BCL's underground mine in Selibe-Phikwe and the only one in Botswana. The shaft is very deep and one cannot anticipate the magnitude of how deep it is until they travel down and further down and yet still further down.

Last Friday morning I was among the 30 or so local journalists who were invited by BCL for a tour of the mine. We were excited when we arrived at the mine premises located between east and south of Selibe-Phikwe.

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