Mine sights in Makgadikgadi & Nxai Pans National Park

1. Sowa Spit

   • Makgadikgadi & Nxai Pans National Park, Botswana
   • Sights › Mine

   The long, slender protrusion of Sowa Spit extends into the heart of Sowa Pan and is the nexus of Botswana's lucrative soda-ash industry. Although security measures prevent public access to the plant, private vehicles can proceed as far as Sowa village on the pan's edge. Views of the pan from the village are limited, though they're ideal if you're travelling through the area in a 4WD.

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2. Sowa Pan

   • Makgadikgadi & Nxai Pans National Park, Botswana
   • Sights › Mine

   Pan is mostly a single sheet of salt-encrusted mud stretching across the lowest basin in northeastern Botswana. Sowa means 'salt' in the language of the San, who once mined the pan to sell salt to the Bakalanga. Today, it is mined by the Sua Pan Soda Ash Company, which sells sodium carbonate for industrial manufacturing.

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