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Transnet, South Africa’s state-owned freight carrier, has been encouraged to reconsider a decision made earlier this year to abandon plans to expand a rail link that would have opened up a new route to Botswana. The project is essential to the coal industries of South Africa and Botswana, according to …

Minister of Minerals, Green Technology, and Energy Resources Lefoko Moagi said that Canada’s Premium Nickel Resources (PNR) will purchase Botswana’s bankrupt state-owned BCL copper mine to resume operations within three years. In February, PNR was given the exclusive right to do six months of due diligence on BCL, which was …

Prospecting licences PL232 and PL235 issued by Botswana Diamonds subsidiary Sunland Minerals in 2015 have been extended for a two-year term beginning October 1. Drill targets on the two PLs have been discovered by recent aeromagnetic surveys, followed by targeted ground magnetic surveys and soil samples. PL232 and PL235, measuring …

2020 was a remarkable year for the global mining industry. The impact of the covid-19 pandemic was felt early and hard by the global mining industry through shutdowns of mines, ports and rail and other transportation infrastructure, with shipments stranded at sea or caught in port and with inconsistent restrictions …

Botswana Diamonds has finished its nine-hole drilling program on the South African Thorny River property. The goal was to determine if two kimberlite blows (the River and River Extension blow) might be combined into a single orebody, boosting the overall resource and improving the project’s commercial prospects. A total of …

According to financial services provider Absa Bank Botswana, Botswana’s economy is on the mend, aided by the mining sector. “Botswana’s economic recovery is underway with an improving outlook for diamond demand buoying medium- to longer-term prospects. Rough diamond prices are recovering in line with stronger demand in key markets, such …

 Pix4D, the market leader in photogrammetry solutions, is attending the Intergeo 2021 conference to share its latest news and technological developments. This includes live demos of its terrestrial data collection hardware and software solution of PIX4Dcatch and the viDoc RTK rover for iPhone Pro and iPad Pro, as well as …

De Beers, a diamond miner and retailer, and National Geographic have announced the beginning of Okavango Eternal, a partnership aimed at protecting the Okavango Delta’s source waters and the people and livelihoods that depend on them. DeBeers said in a press release that the five-year commitment is a critical inward …

Botswana’s Khoemacau Copper Mining is focusing on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, including as significant renewable energy generation and potential community development programs, while it ramps up to nameplate throughput of 3.65 million tonnes per year. Johan Ferreira, CEO of Cupric Canyon Capital and Khoemacau Copper Mining, said in …

The 2022 edition of Investing in African Mining Indaba, originally scheduled for February has been moved to May 2022. Organisers of the event said the decision was made following extensive consultation with partners, key stakeholders across the mining value chain and government ministers. “Collectively we decided, due to ongoing challenges …