Kiss of life for Ngamiland zinc, silver project
Friday, January 29, 2016
The Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources yesterday ended an acrimonious three-year legal battle over mining rights that had at one point dragged in the Office of the President.The ministry re-awarded Mount Burgess, an Australian junior miner, rights to a small patch of ground in Ngamiland beneath which potentially lies 33 million tonnes of zinc, lead and silver.
Mount Burgess, led by battle-hardened mining veteran, Nigel Forrester, took up arms after a May 13, 2013 decision by Minerals minister, Kitso Mokaila to reject the company’s application for an extension of the prospecting licence.
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