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Selebi-Phikwe
Selebi-Phikwe (also spelt ''Selibe Phikwe'') is a mining town located in the Central District of Botswana. It had a population of 49,849 in 2001 which is now estimated to have risen to c.52000. The town is an administrative district, separate from the surrounding Central District.〔(Laws of Botswana ), (Ministry of Local Government )〕
==Mining==
Nickel mining commenced in 1973 and has been the main activity since. The complex includes a mine and a smelter. All operations are now deep mining. Originally there were two tiny places called Selebi and Phikwe, which straddled a large undiscovered deposit of copper and nickel in the area. When the mineral wealth of the area was discovered in the 1960s a mine and township was built in the woodland between the places with the combined name of Selebi-Phikwe.
The main source of employment is the Bamangwato Concessions Ltd. (BCL) mine which excavates and smelts mixed copper-nickel ore from several shafts in deep and opencast mines. The opencast pit is now unused. Ore is transported from the shaft by rail for smelting. Surprising to some the locomotives used are steam powered, having been bought from National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) and South African Railways (SAS).
BCL only intended to stay in operation until 2010 and more recently 2013. The nickel price at a high in April 2008, justified further exploration and it is now expected that mining operations will continue to 2020 and perhaps beyond. It is not clear if new shafts will be opened, but the present shafts will be exhausted in a few years time. The mine used to, and may still, have the longest cable-belt system in the Southern hemisphere.
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