Botswana’s newest and only operational copper mine is expected to start production in 2021 with annual output building to 60,000 tonnes of concentrate, its executive director said.

Botswana is proposing a law that will ask mining companies, once granted a licence, to sell a 24% stake in mines to locals if the government does not exercise its option to acquire the ...

Botswana's state-owned Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) plans to boost production by over a third as the country seeks to cut its dependence on imported power, a company official said on Wednesday.

The Botswana government said the diamond is the second-biggest ever brought out of a mine, behind only the 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond found in neighboring South Africa in 1905.

Deep inside Jwaneng, the world’s richest diamond mine in southern Botswana, Tshepo Kgomokhumo drives his massive truck through piles of rocks forming a lunar-like landscape.

Canada's Lucara Diamond said the 2,492 carat diamond was unearthed at Botswana's Karowe mine. It the second largest diamond to be unearthed to date.

Botswana's main diamond company has paused production at some of its mines, citing a prolonged downturn in global demand. Debswana, a joint venture between the government and global mining giant ...

Botswana’s sole gold operation is situated 50km east of Francistown in the North-East District of Botswana. Mupane Gold Mine commenced operation in 2004, extracting gold from banded ironstone hills ...

Botswana’s map is colour-coded, with various shades denoting exploration and prospecting licences, active operations, pending applications and so on.

The closure of mines in Botswana had placed emphasis on the absolute necessity for low-cost mining production, Econsult Botswana MD Keith Jefferis said on Wednesday. “If we think we can continue as a ...

Emerging copper miner Cupric Africa has set its sights on developing a new underground copper mine in Botswana, with work under way to firm up the bankable feasibility study (BFS) and map out the ...

Botswana's newest and only operational copper mine is expected to start production in 2021 with annual output building to 60,000 tonnes of concentrate, its executive director said.