04/09/2026
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Botswana Minerals plc has identified nine new copper target areas in southern Botswana as it moves closer to drilling as part of its artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted exploration programme.
The London AIM and Botswana Stock Exchange-listed exploration company said its latest analysis combined historical exploration records, geochemistry, geology and geophysical data to identify a number of exploration corridors. One of the targets is particularly promising because historical boreholes immediately to the south recorded copper oxide and copper carbonate mineralisation.
The company said it has also located the relevant historical drill core, which will be examined as exploration work progresses. Botswana Minerals cautioned, however, that the geological interpretation linking parts of north-west Botswana to Namibiaโs Matchless Belt remains an exploration hypothesis and has not been proven.
In the northern licences, the company is now preparing to begin field sampling over the highest-priority areas identified through its AI, geological and historical-data analysis. The aim is to narrow the broad exploration areas into specific targets that can be considered for drilling.
Chairman John Teeling said the company had started with a large Botswana exploration database covering about 95,000 square kilometres and had progressively narrowed its search. โIn the north we are moving to sample the best target areas, to define drill sites. In the south, analysis has identified further copper prone corridors with one target close to known historical copper mineralisation,โ he said.
Botswana Minerals said its exploration programme began with an AI review of its extensive database, leading to the award of eight prospecting licences covering about 7,000 square kilometres in north-west Botswana in January 2026. The company subsequently reported a 9.5km copper anomaly, a 20km silver corridor and a 2.4km lead-zinc zone. It also identified chalcopyrite, a primary copper sulphide, in historical drill core.
The next phase will involve targeted field sampling, testing of the southern corridors, examination and re-logging of historical drill core, and combining new field data with geophysics and AI analysis to rank targets for drilling. The company said the work will be funded from its existing cash resources.
