Debswana invests P3 billion in Jwaneng, Letlhakane tailing plants
Debswana Diamond Company has invested over P3 billion on infrastructures and cutting edge technology at Jwaneng and Letlhakane tailings plants,…
Tag: Botswana mining
Minergy exports over 615,000 tn of coal
Minergy through its 100% owned Masama Coal Mine, located in the Mmamabula Coalfield of Botswana, has exported over 615,000 tonnes…
Lucara recovers 62-carat fancy pink diamond “Boitumelo” from Karowe Mine
Lucara Diamond Corp. (“Lucara” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the recovery of a 62.7-carat fancy pink diamond from…
Botswana begins first iron-ore mining project
GABORONE – Botswana has begun work on its first iron-ore mine, a senior government official said on Tuesday, as the…
Britain’s Firestone to sell Botswana diamond mine for $50 000
Britain’s Firestone Diamonds has agreed to sell its Botswana mine to a local company for just $50,000, after previous attempts to…
Sandfire gets licence for Motheo copper mine in Botswana
The mine will produce 30kt of contained copper and 1.2Moz of contained silver per annum during the first ten years.…
Power Metal venture ready to move to drilling at Botswana rare earths project
Power Metal Resources PLC (LON:POW) says geological surveys at the Ditau rare earths joint venture in Botswana has identified seven…
Khoemacau produces first concentrate
Khoemacau Copper Mines on June 30 achieved a milestone at its Khoemacau copper/silver project in Botswana, with the production of…
Botswana copper hunt delivers multiple drill targets for Si6
Si6 Metals has reportedly identified numerous targets for drill testing along three newly confirmed geophysical anomalies at its Airstrip copper-silver…
Tsodilo sets sights on contributing to low-carbon steelmaking in Botswana
TSX-V-listed Tsodilo Resources has entered into a research collaboration with the Department of Chemical, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the…
Shine bright like a diamond: Botswana unearths another 1,000+ ct diamond
Diamond miner Lucara Diamond Corp has recovered a 1,174.76 ct diamond from its Karowe mine, in Botswana. It is the third…
Kavango plans to drill new electro-magnetic anomaly at the KSZ project in Botswana
Kavango’s modelling of KSZ indicates that the project could be endowed with major mineralisation. Kavango Resources PLC (LON:KAV) has identified…
Botswana unearths the world’s ‘third largest’ diamond
The 1,098-carat diamond is the biggest stone of gem quality to be found in the history of the Debswana company.…
Sandfire awards $496 million mining contract at new Botswana copper mine
Australia’s Sandfire Resources said on Wednesday it had awarded a $496 million mining contract and is set to break ground at the…
Botswana’s Khoemacau copper mine aims to start production this month
GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s new copper mine, Khoemacau, aims to start production at the end of this month with first…
Botswana attractive to mining investors
The Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies 2020 report has placed Botswana as the highest-ranking country in Africa on…
Kavango Resources confident it has found several mineralised systems at Ghanzi South
The South Ghanzi project licences lie within the Central Structural Corridor of the Kalahari Copper Belt immediately south of the…
Botswana economy seen growing by 6.2% in 2021
International credit rating agency – Moody’s, says it forecasts that the Botswana economy will recover in 2021, with real GDP…
Basil Read and local Botswana company to develop Motheo coal mine for Morupule
Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) has awarded a 5-year mining services contract to a joint venture between Bothakga Burrow, a local…
Debswana to Plow $6 Billion for Biggest Underground Diamond Mine
(Bloomberg) – Debswana Diamond Co. will spend 65 billion pula ($6 billion) to build the world’s largest underground diamond mine…
Kavango Resources partners with Spectral for Botswana exploration
(Alliance News) – Kavango Resources PLC is partnering with underground mapping firm Spectral Geophysics to aid in the discovery of…
Power Metal Resources and Kavango Resources plan to list Botswana jv in London
“The conditional acquisitions announced today, subject to due diligence and approvals in Botswana, would significantly increase the footprint of Kanye…
Kopore sells majority stake in Botswana copper asset
ASX-listed Kopore Metals has struck an agreement to sell 75% of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Alvis-Crest to AIM-listed ARC Minerals. Perth-based…
ThreeD Capital reports premium nickel resources awarded exclusivity to acquire former BCL assets in Botswana
ThreeD Capital Inc. (“ThreeD” or the “Company”) (CSE:IDK) (OTCQB:IDKFF), a Canadian-based venture capital firm focused on opportunistic investments in companies…
Botswana finds 11 diamonds at Thorny River project
Botswana Diamonds (LON:BOD) said on Monday it had recovered 11 diamonds and “abundant” kimberlitic indicators from drill samples at its…
Kavango Resources announces encouraging results from AEM surveys over Kalahari Copper Belt
Kavango Resources PLC (LON:KAV)has announced encouraging initial results from airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys flown over its interests in the Kalahari Copper…