Phikwe to get mining museum

According to Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), a feasibility study is already underway for the museum which is scheduled to be running by 2016.The director of pre-university academic programmes, Haniso Motlhabane, who is heading the project, said in an interview on Tuesday that the estimated cost of the museum would be known upon completion of the feasibility study."We will wait for the feasibility study in order for us to talk with confidence regarding implementation costs," he said. 

The museum will transform the copper and nickel town into a rounded science centre where teaching and outreach programmes to motivate young people to pursue science and technology, laboratory activities, as well as atmospheric cleaning work will take place. Research in areas of mining and geological activities will not be left out.