�No hard feelings� :: Mmegi Online

In January this year, Australian junior miner, Mount Burgess won back its rights to a 25-million tonne zinc, silver and lead project in Ngamiland, lost after regulatory wrangles with government. Mt Burgess founder, Nigel Forrester and his wife sank everything into the project, even selling their house for a heavy discount to keep the company afloat. As calm returns, Forrester tells Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, there are no hard feelings

“We had to sell our house, our home. We sold it at a heavy discount just to keep Mount Burgess alive and lost money in the sale. We had to raise money.”

Nigel Forrester and his wife Jan are speaking from their booth at the resource sector conference held in Gaborone. The Forresters, the founders and principal shareholders of Mount Burgess, have not been to the conference in years, perhaps since 2011.

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