Engineering company awarded multiple mining projects

Minerals process and project management company MDM Engineering has been awarded the bankable feasibility study (BFS) by Botswana-based mining company Global Initiatives for Botswana State-owned company BCL’s Dumps Tailings Retreatment Project...

Minerals sector revenues to aid economic diversification

With the output of diamond production set to decline over the medium term as reserves diminish, Botswana’s government has enacted a number of measures to ensure that revenues are used to aid economic diversification. This is stated in market...

Botswana partners study $140m base-metals retreatment plant

Botswana-based base-metals miner BCL has signed an agreement with fellow Botswana-based group, Global Initiatives, to investigate constructing a $140-million plant to retreat mine tailings and smelter slag at BCL’s Selebi Phikwe mine. The...

Wastewater treatment company secures mining contract

Water and wastewater treatment company VWS Envig has recently completed the design, construction and installation of a water-treatment plant in Botswana at the SelebiPhikwe mine.

Engineering no longer a career of choice

Engineering is no longer the career of choice for many.

Botswana nickel smelter outage could last six weeks

Canada's LionOre Mining International said the BCL nickel smelter in eastern Botswana, which processes concentrate from LionOre's two Tati Nickel mines, would close for five to six weeks.

. . . new projects, acquisitions support internationalisation

Resources giant Anglo American spent $1,9-billion to acquire new assets in South Africa and in other regions of the world during the first half of this year.

Black-empowered gold-mine partnership is beginning to unravel

The short-lived partnership between Dr Paseka Ncholo’s black-economically-empowered mining company Khumo Bathong and German billionaire Claas Daun’s Daun et Cie is ending, Mining Weekly can today report.

Canadian miner buys Botswana nickel mines

Canada’s LionOre Mining International said it had agreed to pay $75,9-million for Anglo American nickel mining interests in Botswana.