Botswana Sees Coal Alternative To Diamonds

Monday, February 09, 2009

BOTSWANA will soon launch a study into a 1,500 km rail link from its multi- billion tonne coalfields to a port in Namibia as part of efforts to diversify the economy away from its heavy reliance on diamonds, said Kgomotso Abi, director of Botswana's mines.

Botswana has coal resources of 200 billion tonnes but of that only three to five billion tonnes can be economically mined, Abi told the McCloskey South African Coal Exports Conference.

"We have very limited capacity for coal consumption, so we are aiming for the export market and we are looking at the international market," he said.

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