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14 Oct 2026 · MiningFocus Africa
China and Botswana upgrade ties and pledge cooperation on mining and green minerals
Presidents Xi Jinping and Duma Boko agreed in Beijing on 13 October to deepen cooperation in mining, green technology and industrial development and raised relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. Cooperation documents signed included one on green minerals, but no specific mining investments were announced.
14 Oct 2026 · Ecofin Agency
Tsodilo Resources sets up DR Congo and Namibia units to pursue critical minerals
Canadian explorer Tsodilo Resources, which is developing the Gcwihaba rare earths project in Botswana, created subsidiaries in the DRC and Namibia to look for lithium, tantalum, niobium and copper targets in Haut-Lomami and Tshopo and copper and polymetallic targets in Kunene. It has not yet secured any licence in either country and says talks may not lead to agreements.
2 Oct 2026 · Ecofin Agency
Botswana's copper, nickel and manganese projects advance as it diversifies from diamonds
As diamond markets struggle, Botswana is seeing progress on critical-mineral projects: NexMetals raised resources at the Selebi copper-nickel project by 72%, and Giyani Metals' K.Hill manganese project has a definitive feasibility study and a potential USD 225 million EXIM financing offer. Tsodilo Resources is exploring for rare earths at Gcwihaba.
17 Sept 2026 · MiningFocus Africa
Botswana clears US$140 million Kemcore plant to make reagents for copper and cobalt miners
Kemcore received environmental clearance for a USD 140 million chemicals complex at the Leupane industrial park in central Botswana, designed to produce about 150,000 tonnes a year of mining reagents such as sodium metabisulphite and xanthates. It would supply copper and cobalt producers in DR Congo and Zambia, with financial close targeted for December 2026 and first output in 2028.
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