Base metal refinery plant possible :: Mmegi Online

FRANCISTOWN: Botswana has enough copper concentrates to establish a base metal refinery. According to minister Kitso Mokaila, it is internationally recommended that a country should have an output of 100, 000 tonnes of copper concentrates annually to set up a metal refinery plant. And Botswana does.

“Part of the preliminary outcomes indicated that the minimum required annual tonnage of 100 000 tonnes of copper concentrate is achievable considering the current operations and anticipated projects in the country,” said Mokaila, the minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, at a base metals beneficiation forum last Thursday.

Mokaila said Discovery Metals (assets now acquired by Cupric) had the potential to annually produce 36 000 tonnes, African Copper 14 000 tonnes while Khomacau will provide 50 000 tonnes of copper.

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Base metal refinery plant possible

FRANCISTOWN: Botswana has enough copper concentrates to establish a base metal refinery. According to minister Kitso Mokaila, it is internationally recommended that a country should have an output of 100, 000 tonnes of copper concentrates annually to set up a metal refinery plant. And Botswana does.

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