African copper record output drop
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Mowana Mine
In the update for the half-year ended June 30, 2014, the Botswana Stock Exchange listed copper exploration and production mine, said the records indicates that the volume of the copper processed decreased by 6.4 percent to 2, 703 billion tonnes.
Although the company recorded nine percent increase in the copper recovery rate to 92.6 percent for the financial year 2015, the recovery rate for the month of June decreased by 7.2 percent to 87.2 percent.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...