Legs - I think this article is a bit more reliable on how things...

Legs - I think this article is a bit more reliable on how things stand with Botswana:

Botswana still leads the world in mining

Toronto, Canada based Fraser Institute released its latest, 2010-11, annual global Survey of Mining Companies on Thursday last week, in which Botswana ranks among the top ten mining nations with improved score.

According to the report, Botswana's achieved a score of 74 in this year's survey, up from 66.5 last year, placing it in 14th position among all the jurisdictions and 7th among the nations surveyed.

This year's improved score restores Botswana to the it previous highpoint of 2007/08, that is just before the global recession.

Globally the Canadian Province of Alberta, followed by the US state of Nevada and the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan captured the top three positions.

Issue: Vol.12 No.09 | Monday, 07 March 2011