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Windhoek/Gaborone – The mining sector in the region is facing the severest stress witnessed in a long time which will see thousands of workers losing their jobs and a situation that could strain the revenue streams of Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states, whose projected economic growth for the …

TOMRA and its XRT ore sorting technology have helped Lucara Diamond Corp recover high-value diamonds at their Botswana operation. Lucara Diamond Corp owns the Karowe Diamond Mine. “What we realised in looking at the diamonds that resulted from that work is that many of them were actually broken. “When production …

Bank of Botswana Governor Moses Palaelo has attributed the lower increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to decline in the local mining output. According to the Governor, the lower increase is due to the significant reduction in the growth of diamond output from11.8 per cent to a mere one per …

Kavango Resources announced recently that core and reverse circulation drilling on its Kalahari Suture Zone Project (KSZ), in Botswana, had intersected a high-level gabbroic intrusive at 53 m from surface in one of the holes (RIT50) drilled. The 1 000 m drilling programme is designed to test the company’s exploration …

Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds (BOD) shared details of its areas of focus and strategy for the near future with the media recently. This includes the ramp-up of its South African Marsfontein operation, which produced its first diamonds from gravels and residual stockpiles, earlier this week. The company intends to start a …