Botswana’s LNG to provide ‘energy lifeline’ for impending gas shortage in South Africa
18 January 2025 Botala Energy, an Australian energy company focused on exploration and development opportunities for natural gas and renewables…
Category: Mining
Base metal exports soar
9 January 2025 The country’s base metal exports reached P7.63 billion between January and September 2024, beating the P6.96 billion…
Sightholders Dither on De Beers Rough Despite Price Cut
12 December 2024 Customers faced a dilemma: Buy unprofitable goods or lose future allocations. When shoppers choose to buy diamonds…
Cobre hits new copper mineralisation 7.5 kilometres along strike from Comet Prospect at Ngami in Botswana
6 December 2024 Cobre Ltd (ASX:CBE) has intersected a broad, 21-metre wide zone of chalcocite-dominant (copper sulphide) mineralisation in drill…
Botswana joins Belgium as centre for diamond certification
29 November 2024 Botswana has been added as a second centre, in addition to Belgium, to verify the origin of…
Boko and Cook: Botswana-De Beers deal is close
28 November 2024 The long-awaited deal between De Beers and the Botswana is close to completion, both sides told the…
Botswana Diamonds gets environmental approval to drill in the Kalahari
27 November 2024 Aim-listed BotswanaDiamonds has received environmental authorisation from the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs and the Ministry of…
De Beers hopes to seal Botswana seal in ‘days and weeks’
18 November 2024 De Beers envisages finalising its talks over a sales agreement with the Botswana government soon, CEO, Al…
HP Antwerp expands investment in Botswana with BWP 137million
17 November 2024 Belgian diamond trader, HB Antwerp has announced a transformative investment of 137 million Pula into its operations…
De Beers hopes of Botswana deal boosted by shock election
4 November 2024 DE BEERS’ plans to sign a new diamond sales agreement with Botswana would be boosted by last…
Botswana’s Debswana diamond sales fall over 50% in first nine months of 2024
30 October 2024 Sales of rough diamonds at the Debswana Diamond Company fell about 52% in the first nine months…
De Beers mulls further production cuts
29 October2024 De Beers is considering reducing its output even further amid continued weak demand and oversupply in the manufacturing…
‘They treat us like slaves’: What polishing Botswana’s diamond means for women
27 October 2024 What you need to know… In Botswana’s diamond polishing industry, thousands of women workers face harsh conditions…
Giyani Metals begins commissioning of demo plant for Botswana manganese project
24 October 2024 Giyani Metals Corp (TSX-V:EMM, OTC:CATPF) has entered the commissioning phase of its Johannesburg-based Demonstration Plant, a key…
De Beers to provide country of origin data for its diamonds
22 October 2024 Tracr, the pioneering diamond traceability platform, will list single country of origin for all newly registered De…
Kavango, ENRG jag 32 percent Kalahari copper in Botswana
7 October 2024 South African-based Kavango Resources and its joint venture (JV) partner ENRG Elements have jagged an eye-popping copper…
Botswana’s potential mineral resources remain unexplored
26 September 2024 The Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) has intensified its efforts to explore the untapped mineral resources in the…
Uranium: Botswana gets busy to profit from rising prices
24 September 2024 (Ecofin Agency) – The price of uranium surpassed $100 per pound in early 2024, a record it had…
BHP, Cobre team up for copper-silver hunt in Botswana
24 September 2024 Cobre (ASX:CBE) has executed a letter of intent to negotiate exclusively with a subsidiary of mining giant…
Giyani Metals granted mining license for battery-grade manganese project in Botswana – ICYMI
22 September 2024 Giyani Metals Corp (TSX-V:EMM, OTC:CATPF) CEO Charles FitzRoy joined Proactive to discuss the company’s significant achievement of…
Lucara Diamond Corp unearths 1,094-carat diamond in Botswana
17 September 2024 Lucara Diamond Corp. has recovered another mammoth diamond from a mine in Botswana, its second major find…
BRX to acquire the Kalahari copper project in Botswana
12 September 2024 Special Report: Belararox has signed a deal to acquire the Kalahari copper project in Botswana in a…
Lotus Resources hits thickest uranium zones to date at Letlhakane project in Botswana
10 September 2024 African-focused advanced uranium player Lotus Resources (ASX: LOT) has intersected the thickest continuous zones of uranium mineralisation…
Botswana diamond find can trigger mining investment revival, Lucara CEO says
2 September 2024 Lucara estimates that its Karowe mine accounts for 0.3% to 0.4% of global diamond production. The world’s…
Botswana mining law proposals pose potential litigation and corruption risks
2 September 2024 Botswana’s recently proposed mining law amendment is a positive step to ensure that citizens of the country…
Botswana’s ODC seeks $300 million loans for diamond purchases
31 August 2024 Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) seeks a $300 million credit facility from local banks to support…