{"id":52976,"date":"2024-08-09T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel"},"modified":"2024-08-09T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:00:04","slug":"austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Investor Eyes Tati Nickel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Austrian mogul, Cevdet Caner, is exploring the possible purchase of Tati Nickel, the base metal mine that closed in 2016 as part of the wider BCL Ltd group.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to information shared by the presidency on Wednesday, Caner met with President Mokgweetsi Masisi, Minerals and Energy minister, Lefoko Moagi, and other senior government officials on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Caner\u2019s wholly owned investment group, NIU Invest is reportedly studying a possible offer to buy Tati Nickel, Moagi told state television in a brief interview. The minister said further details of the proposed deal could not be revealed as discussions continue.<\/p>\n<p>Tati Nickel operated the Phoenix Mine before its closure. Its other mine, Selkirk, was snapped up by Premium Nickel Resources Limited for P67 million two years ago, as part of a push to resuscitate BCL Mine\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix was the mainstay of Tati Nickel\u2019s operations in its final years.<\/p>\n<p>Caner&#8217;s interest in Tati Nickel comes five years after the search for a new investor officially ended. At the time, then Minerals minister, Eric Molale, told Parliament that 47 offers had been received for Tati Nickel but these had all failed to meet the grade.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, then BCL Ltd liquidator, Nigel Dixon-Warren, said Tati Nickel&#8217;s disposal had to be combined with the sale of the broader group, which includes the smelter at BCL Mine in Selebi Phikwe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment Tati Nickel can only be viable when BCL is fully operational. \u201cIf BCL is operational, the ore material from Tati Nickel will then be smelted at a smelter operated by BCL which would help bring operational costs to a very reasonable level. \u201cIf an investor buys Tati Nickel and resorts to smelting the nickel from the mine at other facilities, which will inevitably be outside the country, this would not be viable owing to transport costs and that of other logistics,\u201d Dixon-Warren said at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Botswana Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. 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According to information shared by the presidency on Wednesday, Caner met with President Mokgweetsi Masisi, Minerals and Energy minister, Lefoko Moagi, and other senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-52976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Austrian Investor Eyes Tati Nickel - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Austrian mogul, Cevdet Caner, is exploring the possible purchase of Tati Nickel, the base metal mine that closed in 2 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Austrian Investor Eyes Tati Nickel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Austrian mogul, Cevdet Caner, is exploring the possible purchase of Tati Nickel, the base metal mine that closed in 2 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-09T07:39:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-09T08:00:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/08\/sm_1723177758.513084.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"486\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Austrian Investor Eyes Tati Nickel\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-09T07:39:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-09T08:00:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel\"},\"wordCount\":335,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/08\/sm_1723177758.513084.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/austrian-investor-eyes-tati-nickel\",\"name\":\"Austrian Investor Eyes Tati Nickel - 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