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Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds has applied for 11 prospecting licences to secure key polymetallic targets identified by the company’s recent AI-driven exploration programme in Botswana. The...
London-listed Aterian has agreed to the terms of a new trade finance facility with an international trading house, a milestone in its ongoing growth and expansion strategy. The facility is subject...
ASX-listed Lotus Resources notes that a scoping study on the Letlhakane uranium project, in Botswana, confirms the viability of a ten-year operation producing three-million pounds a year of...
About nine months after South Africa’s national elections, German companies in South Africa and the Southern African region are optimistic about their business prospects for the current year,...
The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) said it is accelerating efforts to mobilise the continent's money for investments and tapping investors in the Middle East and Asia, as developing nations...
Mining major BHP has committed to investing up to A$40-million for the exploration of potential Tier 1 copper/silver deposits in Botswana, in partnership with Australia-listed Cobre. The...
South Africa-based opencast mining contractor Trollope offers a range of services, including opencast contract mining, crushing and screening, mine infrastructure development, bulk earthworks,...
Diamond exploration and project development company Botswana Diamonds has been granted a mining permit for its Thorny River project.
Battery metal development company Giyani Metals Corporation has announced the successful production of HPMO at its demonstration plant in Johannesburg.
South Africa, represented by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), was, on March 5, officially inaugurated into the presidency of the Federation of African Engineering Organisations...
London-listed Galileo Resources says chargeability or resistivity anomalies were observed on all five induced polarisation (IP) lines surveyed across two of its Kalahari Copperbelt (KCB)...
London-listed Botswana Diamonds has been granted a mining permit for its Thorny River project, in Limpopo, South Africa. The Thorny River project is close to the mined-out Marsfontein mine.
London-listed Kavango Resources nonexecutive director Alexandra Rose Gorman has agreed to become the company’s COO. The change in her role is expected to take effect in early June, whereupon she...
Lucara Diamond Corp, which owns and operates the Karowe diamond mine, in Botswana, has appointed Melissa Harmon to its board of directors. "We are delighted to welcome Melissa to the Lucara board....
TSX-V-listed Giyani Metals, which is developing the K. Hill battery-grade manganese project in Botswana, has announced the successful production of high-purity manganese oxide (HPMO) at its...
JSE-listed cement and construction materials company PPC says its turnaround plan continues to yield positive benefits as evidenced in the company’s performance for the ten months ended January 31....
With South Africa’s goat industry being largely based in the informal sector, stakeholders such as the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) are increasing efforts to commercialise the goat meat...
Four years since its establishment, the Tshiamiso Trust has disbursed R2-billion to former gold mineworkers and their families who have met the criteria for silicosis and work-related tuberculosis...
Global warming has not only surpassed 1.5 ºC above preindustrial levels but is also set to remain at or above that level permanently, University of the Witwatersrand Professor Francois Engelbrecht...
Botswana's government on Tuesday signed a long-delayed ten-year diamonds sales agreement with Anglo American unit De Beers adding a possible extension period of five more years to the provisional...
Aim-listed Arkle Resources says analysis has identified lithium in all 20 samples taken from a portion of its 937 km2 of licences in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, in Botswana. Despite lower grades of...
Botswana-focused diamond miner Lucara Diamond Corp has reported a record-breaking 2024, highlighted by the recovery of two exceptional stones – the 2 488 ct ‘Motswedi’ diamond and the 1 094 ct...
He was the last man standing among Southern African liberation heroes – those who fought for independence and became founding leaders of their nations. Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma, a towering...
The South African government has reiterated its stance that South African needs a mega oil refinery despite “fundamental changes” under way globally, including the transition to electric mobility....
Canadian diamond mining company Lucara Diamond Corp has reported substantial progress at the project.
Diamond miner Lucara Diamond Corp has sold the 549 ct Sethunya and the 1 080 ct Eva Star diamonds, recovered at its Karowe mine, in Botswana, for $54-million. The Sethunya, recovered in 2021, and...
London-listed African Pioneer, which owns projects in Namibia, Botswana and Zambia, has raised £420 000 from existing and new shareholders to further develop its Ongombo copper/gold project, in...
Giyani Metals has started with advanced commissioning at its demonstration plant in Johannesburg.
Climate and impact fund manager Camco subsidiary Spark Energy Services has signed an agreement with renewable energy and energy efficiency company GreenYellow South Africa to finance a portfolio of...
Amid ongoing challenging rough diamond trading conditions, De Beers has revised its production guidance for 2025 to between 20-million and 23-million carats, compared with previous guidance of...
Prominent figures in the automotive industry met at the Southern African-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in Johannesburg, on January 31, for a combined Automechanika CEO lunch and...
In complex sectors such as mining, flexibility and innovation are key to long-term sustainability. Petroleum products supplier Astron Energy prides itself on unlocking new ways to support mining...
Bulk mining explosives and blasting technology supplier BME is part of the Omnia Group, a JSE-listed diversified provider of specialised chemical products and services used in the mining,...
Engineering company Weir shares its overarching strategy for the African market and how it aligns with the evolving needs of the mining sector on the continent in a video interview with Mining...
Miner Anglo American's diamond unit De Beers said on Monday it had finalised negotiations with the Botswana government for a new rough diamond sales agreement and extended mining licences for its...
Botswana’s government will develop new industries, dismantle the State power utility to foster private investment and increase concessional borrowing as part of a plan to diversify the...
TSX-V-listed Giyani Metals has started with advanced commissioning at its demonstration plant in Johannesburg. The plant will help the company produce the first battery-grade manganese from ore...
Dewatering pump and dredging specialist IPR (Integrated Pump Rental) has extended its rapid-response dewatering services into the rest of Southern Africa to take advantage of new opportunities...
Botswana’s President Duma Boko, who swept to power in October elections, said his government has reached a diamond extraction and sales agreement with De Beers that will bring certainty to the...
Following an estimated 4.8% output contraction in the agriculture sector in 2024, Bureau for Food and Agriculture Policy executive director and commodity markets manager Tracy Davids expects a...
Diamond miner De Beers has named Botswana-born Olympic track and field gold medallist Letsile Tebogo as its global ambassador. Tebogo won a gold medal in the 200 m race at the 2024 Olympics, as...
London-listed Altona Rare Earths has announced that, further to the exercise of the Sesana copper project option announced on July 29, 2024, it has entered into a final agreement with Ignate...
Over the course of the next month, African nations representing almost three-quarters of the continent’s gross domestic product are set to stake out different approaches to interest rates, as they...
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