Botswana is stepping up exploration beyond diamonds as weak prices and lab-grown rivals expose risks of reliance.

By Thuso TSEETSE & Reindolf OFOSU-HENEIt is often said that Africa holds close to a third of the world’s known reserves of the minerals essential to the energy transition and to emerging industrial ...

Mining Weekly interviewed Botswana Minerals and Energy Minister Bogolo Joy Kenewendo at the Investing in African Mining Indaba on Wednesday, where she discussed the country's plans for its mining ...

Miners in Botswana have uncovered an extraordinary gemstone that has captured the attention of gemologists worldwide. The 37.41-carat natural diamond discovered at the Karowe mine features a rare ...

By Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Brian Benza CAPE TOWN, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Botswana plans to ramp up mining exploration, ...

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandvik has received a major underground mining equipment order from the China-based global mining contractor JCHX Mining Management Co., Ltd., to be used at ...

The expansion of the Khoemacau Copper Mine is set to transform Botswana into a key global copper exporter and inject ...

Botswana will attend second edition of the International Exhibition of Extractive and Energy Resources (SIREXE), scheduled for later this year in Abidjan as a country of honour. SIREXE is a biennial ...

GABORONE, Botswana — In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built on ...

Three oversized diamonds, one the size of a tennis ball, were found in the same Botswana mine within 72 hours. The most impressive gem, coming in at a sparkling 1,109 karats, is the second largest ...