Mining License Application Guide

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Botswana
Year	2013
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation
Document Type	Web Page
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?, 1.1.4a: From 2015 onwards, did the licensing authority publicly disclose minimum pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in licensing processes?, 1.1.6a: From 2015 onwards, and after each licensing process, did the licensing authority actually disclose the list of companies that submitted license applications (in the case of a first-come, first served; or negotiation round) or bids (in the case of an auction)?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Practice
Publisher	Ministry of Minerals Energy and Water Resources
Author	Ministry of Minerals Energy and Water Resources Ministry of Minerals Energy and Water Resources
Source or API link	http://www.mines.gov.bw/ml%20mp%20applications%20guide.pdf
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute