Minister of Minerals Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Mr Lefoko Moagi has announced that all sand mining activities will eventually cease as a way of safeguarding the environment and curbing illicit ventures. He said this when addressing community leaders in Ramotswa and Taung villages on Tuesday. Mr Moagi, also …

Department of Forestry and Range Resources director, Ms Baitshepi Babusi-Hill has hailed Majwe Mining for sponsoring the tree planting activity, saying said it would come in handy to assist government to combat deforestation. Botswana loses about 118 000 hectares of forests annually, which have to be replaced to avoid deforestation. …

Tlou Energy has revealed that the losses for the year were higher than the previous period due to the impairment in some of the Group’s non-core prospecting licences. The company made progress during the year although at a much slower pace than it had been expected mainly due to external …

Built on innovation since its inception over three decades ago, global explosives leader BME – a member of the JSE-listed Omnia Group – paves the way for mines to leverage the latest technologies for ever-greater efficiencies and productivity. “Harnessing technology as quickly as it develops – and applying it to …

Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) together with Full tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) data company Bell Geospace have launched Mineral Prospectivity Mapping project, the project promotes access to integrated quality geoscience data which goes a long way in determining the success of operations in a region. The project was launched during the …

Lausanne, Switzerland; Pix4D, technology pioneer and market leader in industrial photogrammetry software solutions, announces that it is starting a joint innovation project with SAP® to open up the market for drone-based, digital 3D inspections for telecommunications companies. SAP, a global leader in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software, has included Pix4D …

Botswana Diamonds has drilled two holes at depths of 67 m and 61 m, respectively, with one of them intersecting 4 m of kimberlite from about 54 m to 58 m depth at its Marsfontein project, in Botswana. The objective of the company’s latest drilling campaign was to test a …

Kalahari Key Mineral Exploration (KKME) has also received written confirmation from the country’s Department of Environmental Affairs that the environmental management plan (EMP) has now been approved. The EMP covers planned drilling operations at the Molopo Farms Complex (MFC) project and represents the last formal regulatory step prior to the …

London-listed Kavango Resources has revealed that images from its computerised three-dimensional (3D) geological modelling of its Kalahari Suture Zone (KSZ) project in Botswana confirm significant similarities between the northern section of the zone and the giant Norilsk mining centre in Siberia. The giant Norilsk mining centre accounts for 90% of …

Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds seeks to raise £300 000 to fund ongoing exploration activities in Botswana and South Africa this year, as well as for additional working capital. The company has arranged a placing with existing and new investors to raise the funds through the issue of 50-million new ordinary shares. …