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AI-Driven Exploration Unveils Major Copper and Silver Corridors in Botswana

Botswana Minerals plc has successfully identified a significant 9.5km copper anomaly and an extensive 20km silver corridor through its latest AI-driven exploration initiative in north-west Botswana. The company, which maintains listings on both the AIM and the Botswana Stock Exchange, reported that early data from Licences 458 and 459 in …

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Botswana’s Diamonds Will Shine at World Athletics Relays and That Is No Coincidence

Botswana has marked a double milestone with characteristic ambition, celebrating 60 years of diamond industry leadership whilst unveiling a medal sponsorship for the World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 that places Botswana-mined and finished natural diamonds at the centre of a global sporting stage. President Duma Gideon Boko officiated the diamond …

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LHM Strengthens Botswana’s Mining Sector with Tailored Power Solutions

LH Marthinusen, a prominent division of ACTOM and a global leader in electro-mechanical repair and manufacturing, is nearing the final stages of a significant project involving the manufacture of two 30 MVA transformers for a major mining house in Botswana. This initiative was born from the mining company’s urgent need …

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Geopolitical Battleground and Africa Is Sitting on the Prize – Update

The global race for critical minerals has evolved into a geopolitical contest, where supply chains are no longer just about economics but about power, security and influence. Demand for minerals essential to clean energy and digital technologies is set to surge dramatically by as much as 500% by 2050, according …

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Botswana Minerals Commences Phase 1 Exploration in Ngamiland – update

Botswana Minerals, the dual-listed explorer with a presence on both the London and Botswana stock exchanges, has officially launched its Phase 1 work programme across a suite of highly prospective copper licences in the Ngamiland region. The initiative targets the underexplored north-eastern extension of the Damara Belt, a geological formation …

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AI-Driven Analysis Puts Botswana Minerals on Track for Multi-Metal Drilling Push

Botswana Minerals has reported encouraging early-stage results from an integrated geological and AI-enhanced exploration analysis across its copper prospecting licences in north-west Botswana, with the work identifying multiple target systems prospective for copper, silver, zinc, lead, nickel and cobalt. The AIM-listed company has defined two principal exploration models from the …

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Fresh Funds Flow into Tsodilo’s Botswana Critical Minerals Play

Tsodilo Resources has completed a non-brokered private placement, raising gross proceeds of C$900,000 through the issuance of 4.5 million units at a subscription price of C$0.20 per unit. The funds will be directed towards advancing the company’s Xaudum Iron Formation critical minerals and rare earth elements project in Botswana, with …

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Botswana Takes Its Diamond Story to the World’s Biggest Market

The Minister of Minerals and Energy Bogolo Joy Kenewendo has concluded a week of high-level engagements in New York aimed at reinforcing Botswana’s standing as the world’s leading source of responsibly mined natural diamonds and deepening ties across the global jewellery industry. The United States is the single largest and …

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Botswana Pivots to Agri-Industrialization to Break Diamond Dependency

GABORONE – The Government of Botswana is aggressively accelerating its economic diversification agenda, positioning the agricultural sector as the primary engine to shield the national economy from the volatility of global diamond markets. Under the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme (BETP), the landlocked nation aims to triple agriculture’s contribution to Gross …

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Closing the skills gap: how WearCheck training boosts asset reliability

In workshops, plants and pits across Southern Africa, the craft of machinery maintenance is changing faster than many teams can keep up with. Ever-tightening production targets, increasingly complex asset fleets, and the rising cost of getting maintenance wrong all contribute to industrial inefficiency. Often, the people charged with keeping mission-critical …

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