Conference To Showcase Botswana Projects In Resources Sector

"Foreign companies recognise that Botswana is a low-risk, stable economic environment, in which to base their operations, with security and transparency in the legal and regulatory framework. Mining is usually a labour-intensive sector and it is extremely important to encourage it in Botswana, where unemployment is a challenge, and where skills transfer is so vitally important," adds Pickering.

Pickering tells Mining Weekly that Botswana has seen increased interest from foreign mining and exploration companies in recent years, which helps the government's stated aim of diversification away from diamonds, the economic mainstay.