A timeline to a collision :: Mmegi Online

Fighting to preserve its rights to Kihabe – a lucrative zinc, lead and silver lease in Ngamiland – Australian explorer, Mount Burgess Mining, is presenting government with its stiffest legal and diplomatic battle in recent decades. As the battle nears the Court of Appeal, CEO, Nigel Forrester, exclusively provides Mmegi Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, with a chronology of the crisis

9 September 2006: Whilst attending the Africa DownUnder conference in Perth, Australia, the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources (MMEWR), Charles Tibone, attends a supper hosted by Mount Burgess Mining (MTB). Tibone advises MTB that through the intended upgrade of power, sufficient grid power for the Kihabe project should be available at Nokaneng by 2011.

24 July 2008: Edward Rugoyi, Director of the Botswana Power Corporation gives a presentation to the Botswana Resources Conference and a map on the second last page of his presentation shows that Discovery Metals would have grid power for its copper project southwest of Maun by 2011. After this presentation, Nigel Forrester, CEO MTB, asks Rugoyi how long it would then take for power to be provided for the Kihabe project and Rugoyi advises that it would take around another year to get power from Sehitwa to Nokaneng and then out to the Kihabe area, therefore work on power being available by the end of 2012.

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