The 2013 map showed no exploration there, but the cadastre highlights a number of current prospecting licences for a wide range of commodities including chrome, gold, lithium, manganese, palladium ...

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. Situated in ...

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 ...

The Botswana government believes the huge 2,492-carat stone is the biggest discovered in the country, and the second-biggest ever brought out of a mine. Skip to main content Sections ...

In 1969, the Botswana government signed a 50/50 deal with global diamond giant De Beers to explore and mine all of the country’s diamonds. The partnership, called ‘Debswana,’ has helped turn ...

Botswana's mining industry faces further job losses as it reels from the global slump in commodities, with copper miner BCL set to shed up to a third of its workforce and Gem Diamond also planning ...