$900m Khoemacau expansion lifts Botswana’s copper ambitions
3 March 2026 At full capacity, the 130 000 tpa operation will significantly boost output from the Khoemacau mine and…
Tag: Kalahari copper belt
Botswana accelerates copper, cobalt and lithium strategy to strengthen post-diamond economic resilience
20 February 2026 Botswana is accelerating its copper, cobalt and lithium strategy as structural shifts in global diamond markets push…
Botswana grants new copper license to reduce reliance on diamonds
16 December 2025 Diamonds remain a pillar of Botswana’s economy. However, the global diamond market crisis has weakened this advantage…
Tribeca Investment Fund backs Botswana’s emerging copper industry
18 November 2025 Botswana intensifies efforts to diversify its economy away from diamonds as global copper demand rises. The southern…
Noronex fires up rigs for Botswana copper push with South32
24 October 2025 Noronex has launched a major new reverse circulation (RC) drilling programme across the company’s Cgae Cgae copper…
China’s Sinomine secures path to control Botswana Copper Project nn A$9 million deal
3 September 2025 Chinese mining company Sinomine has signed an investment agreement to acquire a 70% stake in the Okavango…
Belararox identifies 20 areas to drill for copper in Botswana
1 April 2025 Special report: A review of existing geology and geophysics has identified three main regions with higher prospectivity,…
Noronex extends Namibia copper hunt into adjacent Botswana
15 March 2025 Noronex Limited has been granted two strategic Botswana prospecting licences on the Namibia-Botswana border, contiguous with and…
Altona exercises option to acquire Botswana project, appoints new non-exec director
30 July 2024 Resource exploration and development company Altona Rare Earths has exercised its option to acquire the Sesana copper/silver…
Kavango Resources unveils copper-silver potential in Botswana’s Kalahari Copper Belt
2 April 2024 Kavango Resources plc (LSE:KAV) has unveiled preliminary interpretations of geophysical survey data conducted by New Resolution Geophysics…
Galileo Resources discovers new copper targets in Botswana
1 February 2024 Galileo Resources PLC (AIM:GLR) has unearthed three copper targets within licence PL253/2018, part of its portfolio in…
Galileo identifies three targets in Botswana for follow-up exploration work
31 January 2024 London-listed Galileo Resources has defined three potential drill targets with a combined strike length of about 6…
Kavango Resources to acquire six prospecting licences in Botswana
25 September 2023 (Alliance News) – Kavango Resources PLC on Monday said it has signed a deal with Global Exploration…
Perenti secures $235m contract for Motheo expansion project in Botswana
7 September 2023 AMS is responsible for delivering all surface mining services related to development and production activities at the…
Motheo Copper Mine, Botswana
Mine Type: Open-pit copper mineCommodity: Copper concentrateLocation: BotswanaProcessing rate: 3.2 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) initiallyLife of mine: Around ten…
Australia’s Sandfire starts copper production at Motheo mine in Botswana
25 May 2023 The newly commissioned mine in the Kalahari Copper Belt will start copper shipments mid-year, contributing to the…
Caterpillar, Barloworld, AMS and Sandfire collaborate at Motheo in Botswana
When Sandfire Resources produces the first ore from its new Motheo copper mine in Botswana, southern Africa, later this year,…
Kavango sets out its plans for 2023 following strategic review
Kavango Resources PLC (LSE:KAV, OTC:KVGOF) has completed a strategic review involving exploration, financing and expansion with regard to its portfolio of assets…
Kavango Resources turns focus to Karakubis copper project in Botswana
Kavango Resources PLC (LSE:KAV, OTC:KVGOF) recently commissioned a report on the prospectivity of its Kalahari Copper Belt projects in Botswana, which…
Cobre will collaborate with Sandfire for survey over Kalahari Copper Belt projects
Cobre Ltd (ASX:CBE) will collaborate with successful global explorer and producer Sandfire Resources Ltd on a joint Airborne Gravity Gradient…
Cobre’s Botswana project yields high-grade copper results
Cobre Limited’s assay results for drill hole NCP20A which has intersected a significant zone of chalcocite mineralisation within a parasitic…
Cobre completes Kalahari Metals acquisition; secures second-largest tenure in Kalahari Copper Belt
Cobre Ltd (ASX:CBE) has obtained Kalahari Metals Ltd (KML) in full after acquiring the remaining 49% interest in the entity,…
Cobre (ASX:CBE) hits 12m of visible copper at Ngami, Botswana
Cobre (CBE) intersects 12 metres of visible anomalous copper mineralisation in the first diamond hole at the Ngami copper project…
Sandfire detects “substantial exploration potential” of Motheo after drilling campaign
SANDFIRE Resources says recent drilling of its Motheo copper prospect in Botswana had demonstrated “substantial exploration potential” of the landholding.…
LSE-listed miner Kavango Resources reports ‘exploration upside’ at Ditau project in Botswana
LSE-listed miner Kavango Resources has identified an Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) system at its Ditau Project in southwestern Botswana,…
Cobre unearths more high-grade copper at Ngami in Botswana
“These results add weight to our conviction that this area is potentially host to one of the next big copper…