Gold and copper – will Botswana coin it?
when John Munro and Johan Ferreira were last employed in the SA gold sector, it could still claim a stake as an influence globally. National production in 2010 was just short of 200 tonnes, comprising about 8% of world production and making the country the globe’s fifth-largest producer.
By 2019, gold production was 100 tonnes and people employed in the sector totalled 100 000, about 60
