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The Tati Nickel Mining company near Francistown is owned by Anglo American (43%), Canadian Lionore Mining International (41%) and the Botswana government (15%). Tati has two operating mines, Selkirk and Phoenix, with production earmarked to double. As a result, the company intends producing approximately 320 000 t of nickel concentrate/year grading at about 5.5%. The orebody at Selkirk (located 15 km south of Phoenix), is described as a shallow plunging zone of massive sulphide mineralisation, about 200 m long, 100 m wide and up to 25 m thick. The down-plunge limit of the known massive sulphide orebody is located 150 m below surface. Tati resources have been estimated at 170 million tonnes at a nickel grade of 0.29% and a copper grade of 0.20% (Reserves: 48 Mt at 0.59% nickel and 0.34% copper). At Tati, LionOre completed the commissioning of a US$66 million expansion project at the Phoenix underground mine in 2003 to upgrade ore throughput and construct an on-site wet concentrate treatment facility. [ http://www.mbendi.co.za/indy/ming/nkcb/af/bo/p0005.htm - Retrieved on 16 MAY 2008 ] |