Workstream 0 · custodians and field collection
Custodian registry
Who holds what, whether we may take it, where it is right now, and whether it came back. Owned by the local partner's field team; visible to EICB weekly.
Collection cycle
Holdings at each stage
Identify
12
Request
11
Authorise
7
Retrieve
7
Capture
7
Return
4
Nothing moves before authorisation. Every item has a manifest line and a signed
custody record.
Needs EICB facilitation
Requests older than 10 working days
- 18dSandfire ResourcesMotheo regional geochemistry
- 14dUniversity of BotswanaMSc and PhD theses, Tati and Vumba
- 26dOranoLetlhakane uranium drilling
Sequence from Phase 1 readiness scoring · monthly
| Seq | Custodian | Holding | Class | Medium | Volume | Condition | Access | Instrument | Commodities | Collector | Batches | In custody |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BGI Records office | Scanned historical reports | Documents | digital | 11,236 PDFs | good | authorised | letter | Cu Ni Au | Amini Soma | 14 | 0 |
| 2 | BGI Geophysics unit | Airborne survey tapes 1975 to 1999 | Geophysics | tape | 212 tapes | poor | authorised | letter | Cu REE U | Geothax | 3 | 24 |
| 3 | MME / DoM Liquidator archive | BCL drilling and assay archive | Drilling | microfiche | ~9,800 holes | fair | authorised | DSA | Ni Cu | Geothax | 4 | 0 |
| 4 | Khoemacau Copper Mining Exploration manager | Boseto and Zone 5 drillhole DB | Drilling | database | 1,284 holes | good | authorised | DSA | Cu | Amini | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Department of Water Affairs Hydrogeology | Makgadikgadi borehole logs | Drilling | paper | 412 logs | fair | authorised | letter | Li | Geothax | 2 | 18 |
| 6 | Sandfire Resources Country manager | Motheo regional geochemistry | Geochemistry | digital | ~22,000 samples | good | requested18d | NDA | Cu | Geothax | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | University of Botswana Geology dept | MSc and PhD theses, Tati and Vumba | Documents | paper | 61 theses | good | requested14d | letter | Au Ni | Geothax | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | BGI Map library | 1:50,000 field sheets, NW block | Geology | paper | 340 sheets | poor | authorised | letter | REE Cu | Geothax | 1 | 40 |
| 9 | Orano Legal | Letlhakane uranium drilling | Drilling | database | ~3,100 holes | good | restricted26d | NDA | U | Geothax | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Council for Geoscience (ZA) Data sales | Cross-border gravity stations | Geophysics | digital | 4,200 stations | good | unknown | letter | Ni Li | Amini | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Private collection Retired geologist, Francistown | Tati field notebooks 1968 to 1984 | Documents | paper | 27 notebooks | critical | refused31d | letter | Au | Geothax | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | BGI Records office | Floppy disks, 1990s exploration returns | Mixed | floppy | ~600 disks | critical | authorised | letter | Cu Au Ni | Amini | 1 | 0 |