Mount Burgess Mining Could Be Onto Something Big In Botswana By...

Mount Burgess Mining Could Be Onto Something Big In Botswana

By Our Man In Oz

The last time Minesite had a long chat with Nigel Forrester from Mt Burgess Mining was in the middle of 2005, when he was just loading up for a spot of elephant hunting in Australia and Africa. Needless to say the obvious happened. The elephants proved rather elusive in Oz; just lots of snakes and kangaroos. Africa, however, might be living up to its reputation as the natural home of pachyderms. In the case of Mt Burgess its particular potential elephant is zinc-plated, called Kihabe and found in the north-west of Botswana, butting hard up against the Namibian border, and just to the west of the famous Okavango Delta. If drilling results of the type Mt Burgess has been reporting recently continue to flow the rest of the mining world might soon be beating a path to the remote location, or to Forrester’s office in Perth, Western Australia, because Kihabe appears to have the makings of a substantial discovery. ....

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