Botswana Minerals identifies priority targets across north-west licences

20th Apr 2026 11:52

(Sharecast News) - Botswana Minerals said on Monday that it has identified a series of priority copper, silver and lead-zinc targets across its licences in north-west Botswana, as part of an AI-driven exploration programme.

The AIM-traded company, which holds 7,074 square kilometres in the north-eastern Damara Belt, said early-stage analysis over licences 458 and 459 in Ngamiland had highlighted multiple mineralisation trends, supporting its aim of defining drill-ready targets.

Among the initial findings, Botswana Minerals identified a copper anomaly extending 9.5 kilometres east of a major fault, alongside a silver anomaly corridor of around 20 kilometres mapped across a key fault zone.

It also outlined a core lead-zinc mineralised zone approximately 2.4 kilometres long within a broader western trend.

The group said the data suggested the presence of either a single large mineralised system with zoned metals or two overlapping systems, with ongoing work focused on refining these interpretations and prioritising targets for follow-up exploration.

"These early results are good. There are emerging copper, silver and lead zinc patterns in the new data," said chairman John Teeling.

"The AI models we are using assist with better and quicker interpretations of the data.

"Our objective is simple and clear. Identify drill targets."

Botswana Minerals said the next phase of its programme would include further magnetic and gravity data analysis, additional geochemical testing, integration of hyperspectral satellite data and a review of historical drilling records, with AI-assisted modelling continuing to support geological interpretation.

The company added that results from the first phase of exploration were helping narrow the focus from a broad regional assessment to more clearly defined zones, including a structurally controlled copper-silver trend linked to a major fault and a separate western area prospective for lead and zinc.

At 1120 BST, shares in Botswana Minerals were up 4.31% at 0.27p.

Reporting by Josh White for Sharecast.com.

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