Toteng

For the smaller village near Francistown, see Toteng, North-East.

Toteng

Toteng (Botswana)

Toteng is a village in the north west of Botswana, Ngamiland. The town is the location of the oldest "directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa".[1][2] Nearby towns are Sehithwa and Bobideng to the west, Tsau and Gumare to the north and Maun to the northeast.

The village has both a hospital and a school.

In 2012 the Boseto mine, an open-pit copper mine, was opened in Toteng.[3] It closed down in 2015,[4] but is expected to reopen as an underground mine, sometimes known as the Zeta Mine.[5]

Notes and references

1. "Oldest dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa found". EurekAlert!. 2 August 2005. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.
2. Robbins, Lawrence H.; et al. (2005). "The Advent of Herding in Southern Africa: Early AMS dates on domestic livestock from the Kalahari Desert, Botswana". Current Anthropology. 46 (4): 671–677. doi:10.1086/432748.
3. "Boseto Copper Project, Ngamiland, Kalahari Copper Belt". Mining Technology. 2011. Archived from the original on 8 May 2011.
4. Mmolai, Esther (26 July 2015). "BOSETO mine set to resume operations". Daily News. Botswana. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017.
5. Liedtke, Simone (26 May 2017). "'Attractive' copper project advances on back of $50m loan". Mining Weekly. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017.

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