Toteng

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

Toteng is located in Botswana
Toteng
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]

  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.