{"id":213508,"date":"2025-11-13T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-new-strategic-minerals-enter-fold\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:50:31","slug":"botswana-new-strategic-minerals-enter-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-new-strategic-minerals-enter-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: New Strategic Minerals Enter Fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Gaborone \u2014 Botswana&#8217;s mining sector is evolving rapidly with new strategic minerals entering the fold alongside diamonds, said President Advocate Duma Boko has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Delivering his second State-of- the-Nation Address on Monday, Adv. Boko stated that the Letlhakane Uranium Project, operated by Lotus Resources was undergoing a major infill drilling campaign to refine its resources and support a P6.2 billion mine plan targeting three million pounds of Uranium annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In Kanye, he said, Giyani&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511110303.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Botswana&#8217;s mining sector is evolving rapidly with new strategic minerals entering the fold alongside diamonds, said President Advocate Duma Boko has said. Delivering his second State-of- the-Nation Address on Monday, Adv. Boko stated that the Letlhakane Uranium Project, operated by Lotus Resources was undergoing a major infill drilling campaign to refine its resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,7605,25620,9587,257,254,8007],"class_list":["post-213508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-enter","tag-fold","tag-minerals","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}