Over the past year, policymakers in several of the continent’s major producers have advanced new mining frameworks centred on ...

Project Description Lucara is developing a UGP at Karowe to extend the mine’s life and continue the production of large, high ...

BOTSWANA’S diamond inventory has swelled to nearly twice its target level, preventing production increases that might otherwise support the struggling economy, said Reuters citing a paper by the ...

By Brian Benza GABORONE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Botswana's diamond stockpile is nearly double its target inventory levels amid persistent low prices, leaving the country unable to increase gem production ...

NIU Group, headed by Austrian investor Cevdet Caner, has announced the acquisition and restart of the Tati Mine in Botswana. This marks the beginning of a new chapter for Tati, positioning the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...