Botswana Diamonds raising £0.3m to fund exploration work
Botswana Diamonds announced a fundraise of £0.3m on Monday, to fund its ongoing exploration activities in Botswana and South Africa.…
Category: Mining
BCL Mine could have new owners by December
The defunct BCL mines could have new owners four months from now. This would bring to an end 4 years…
Concor paves the way for remote Botswana Mine
Tackling the demanding conditions of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert, Concor Infrastructure is nearing completion of a 35 km access road for…
De Beers rough diamonds demand under short-term pressure
Diamond giant De Beers Group says demand for rough gems remains under short-term pressure as travel restrictions in southern Africa…
Concor paves the way for remote Botswana Mine
Tackling the demanding conditions of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert, Concor Infrastructure is nearing completion of a 35 km access road for…
Minergy and Botswana celebrate historic achievement as the first coal exports leave Botswana bound for South Africa
Minergy, the coal mining and trading company with the Masama coal mine located in the Mmamabula Coalfield of Botswana has…
Concor paves the way for remote Botswana mine
Tackling the demanding conditions of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert, Concor Infrastructure is nearing completion of a 35 km access road for…
Lucara revises plans for Karowe’s P6bn underground project
Lucara Diamond is reworking its $514 million (P6.2 billion) plans for an underground mine, moving key works to next year…
Copper exports make surprise return
Botswana exported P280.3 million in copper in March, marking the first major sales of the base metal since major producer,…
De Beers discussing temporary move of diamond sales from Botswana with Govt.
De Beers is in discussions with the Botswana government to move diamond sales from its capital, Gaborone, nearer to buyers…
Copper Belt exploration enables diversification
Renewed exploration interest – improvements in exploration techniques have resulted in a pipeline of exploration projects Renewed exploration interest in…
Russia, Congo, Botswana hold 80% of global diamond reserves
Russia’s Alrosa is the only major diamond company currently producing in Angola via its stake in the Catoca mine (pictured)…
Fluor achieves safety milestone at Botswana mine
Engineering company Fluor South Africa has reached a safety milestone of two-million hours worked without a lost-time injury at Cupric…
Galileo Resources acquires new copper exploration licences in Botswana
Galileo Resources PLC (LON:GLR) has announced it is to acquire 21 prospecting licences inside the Kalahari Copper and Limpopo Mobile Belts…
Kavango Resources outlines next steps for its highly prospective Botswana project
Kavango Resources PLC (LON:KAV) Chief Executive, Michael Foster says he expects his team to make significant progress validating the thesis…
De Beers Offers 100% Deferrals at May Sight
De Beers is allowing rough-diamond customers to skip all purchases at next week’s sight, as shutdowns of manufacturing and retail…
De Beers Pauses Botswana Mining
De Beers’ mining operations in Botswana have been on hold for more than two weeks amid a national lockdown, the…
Funders rally around Botswana’s coal dreams
Glimmer of hope for Botswana’s coal dreams The Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security Minister, Lefoko Moagi says contact…
New Film details how Botswana benefits from diamonds
By nearly all accounts when it comes to the diamond industry, Botswana is a success story. Because of diamonds, the…
Discovering Sewelô – Botswana’s largest diamond ever
Lucara Diamond Corp. announced the recovery of a 1,758-carat diamond from the Karowe Diamond Mine located in Botswana in April…
The future of gas-to-power projects in Africa
Natural gas is expected to play a central role in supporting Africa’s drive to achieve electricity connection for nearly 600…
Lazenby lands reclamation work for manganese deposits in Botswana
TSX-listed Giyani Metals Corp. reports that it has selected Lazenby Holdings, a Botswana-based minerals processing services company to undertake the…
Kavango Resources commences drilling on KSZ in Botswana
UK-based mineral exploration company, Kavango Resources has started drilling at the first of its three targets in Botswana’s Kalahari Suture…
Metal Tiger pleased with drilling progress at Botswana projects
Aim-listed Metal Tiger reports positive developments at the Ngami copper project (NCP) and the Okavango copper project (OCP) in Botswana,…
The world’s largest untouched coal reserves are set to be mined in Botswana
According to a recent report from New Scientist, Botswana is on the verge of mining the largest untapped coal deposits…
Sandfire Kalahari Copper Belt bulb lights up
Australian copper miner Sandfire Resources’ dream of harvesting copper from the untapped zone of Kalahari Copper Belt lives on as…