Botswana Mining Review Comprehensive Coverage of the Progress and Achievements in the Mining Sector

Botswana has been stripped of a notch on its sovereign credit rating as S&P Global Ratings warned that the country’s deep dependence on diamonds is extracting a heavier and more prolonged toll than previously anticipated. The ratings agency lowered Botswana’s long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings to ‘BBB-‘ …

The Eastport Critical Minerals Corp. (TSXV: EVI; OTCQB: EVIIF) has expanded its drilling programme at the Foley Uranium Project in Botswana after Phase 1 results revealed a mineralised system considerably larger than initially anticipated. The project sits immediately north of Lotus Resources’ Letlhakane deposit, one of the world’s largest undeveloped …

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 …

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 …

A junior miner with an unusually large footprint on one of southern Africa’s most prospective greenstone belts is preparing to put its geological thesis to the test. One Bullion (TSXV: OBUL; OTCPL: OBULF) is weeks away from launching geophysical surveys across its Maitengwe and Vumba projects in Botswana, with each …