Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5
SWOT
Analysis — 7
Botswana Political
SWOT — 7
Botswana Economic SWOT — 8
Botswana Business Environment SWOT — 9
Special Focus:
Outlook For Global Mining — 10
Table: Biggest Chinese
Acquisitions In Australia Since 2005 — 12
Table: Global
Mining – Top Five Companies By Market Capitalisation
(US$mn) — 14
Table: Global Mining – Key
Players’ Future Investment Plans (selected
projects) — 15
Industry Trends And
Developments — 17
Overview — 17
Table:
Mines In Botswana — 19
Regulatory
Structure — 19
Recent
Developments — 20
Key Projects — 21
Metals — 21
Gold — 21
Copper-Nickel — 21
Lead And Zinc — 23
Uranium — 24
Minerals — 24
Coal — 24
Diamonds — 25
Business
Environment — 27
Regional Mining Overview –
Africa — 27
Table: Africa Mining Business Environment
Ranking — 27
Limits Of Potential
Returns — 28
Risks To Realisation Of
Returns — 28
Legal Framework — 29
Table: BMI’s Legal Framework Ratings — 30
Property
Rights — 31
Labour Force — 33
Foreign
Investment Policy — 34
Table: Middle East And
Africa’s Annual Foreign Direct Investment Inflows,
2004-2006 — 35
Table: Botswana’s Annual FDI Inflows,
2001-2006 — 36
Table: BMI’s Trade
Ratings — 37
Operational Risk — 39
Political Environment — 41
Economic
Activity — 43
Table: Botswana - Economic
Activity — 46
Industry Forecast
Scenario — 47
Metals Price
Outlook — 47
Table: Stock Levels At London Metals Exchange
Warehouses (tonnes) — 50
Copper — 50
Table: BMI Copper Forecast — 50
Aluminium — 52
Table: BMI Aluminium
Forecast — 52
Global Industry
Overview — 54
Regional Analysis — 54
Botswana’s Mining Industry Forecasts — 57
Table:
Botswana Mining Industry Forecast — 58
Competitive
Landscape — 59
Table: Key Players In Botswana’s
Mining Industry — 59
Company
Monitor — 61
De Beers Botswana Mining (Debswana
Mining) — 61
Tati Nickel Mining
Co — 63
African Diamonds — 64
African
Copper — 65
Appendices — 66
Appendix A
– Global Assumptions — 66
Global — 66
Table: Global Assumptions,
2007-2013 — 67
Economic Activity — 67
Table: Global And Regional Real GDP Growth, 2006-2012 (% change
y-o-y) — 68
Table: Developed States’ Real GDP
Growth, 2008-2010 — 69
Table: Emerging Markets’ Real
GDP Growth, 2008-2010 — 70
Monetary
Policy — 70
Table: Developed Market Exchange Rates,
2006-2010 (average) — 71
Table: Emerging Market Exchange
Rates, 2006-2010 (average) — 71
Commodities — 72
Appendix B: Business Environment
Methodology — 73
Ratings Overview — 73
Table: Mining Business Environment Indicators — 74
Table:
Weighting Of Components — 75
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