The Kalahari Copperbelt Project

A Battery Metal Destination in Africa

The Kalahari Copperbelt is a renowned mineral-rich region celebrated for its significant deposits of copper and silver. Spanning parts of Botswana and Namibia, it has become a vital hub for mining operations due to its high-grade deposits and extensive mineralisation.

The Copperbelt’s most active mining areas are concentrated near towns such as Maun in Botswana and within Namibia’s western mining corridor. Its location offers strategic access to infrastructure and export routes, reinforcing its role as a key contributor to the region’s economic and industrial development.

The Kalahari Copperbelt (KCB) Project

The Kalahari Copperbelt (KCB) Project

  • The NE-trending Proterozoic belt, 800km long by up to 250km wide, stretches from northern Botswana into eastern Namibia. The KCB district is similar in setting to the Central African Copperbelt sediment-hosted deposits of Zambia and DRC.
  • The belt contains copper-silver mineralisation, which is generally stratabound and hosted in metasedimentary rocks that have been folded, faulted and metamorphosed to greenschist facies during the Damara Orogeny.
  • Sediments at the base of the D’Kar Formation (on the contact with lower Ngwako Pan Formation) hosts copper sulphide minerals. The outstanding potential has been hidden under Kalahari sand cover. In 2021, the state-owned Botswana Power Corporation commissioned the North West Transmission Grid Project to supply mining projects in the KCB with reliable, cost-effective power.

KCB : Reported Highlights

Sedimentary Hosted Copper & Lithium Brine

  • Licences are held by 90% Aterian owned Atlantis Metals (Pty) Ltd, a private Botswana registered company. 7 prospecting licences covering 1,969 km2 located in the world-renowned Kalahari Copperbelt (“KCB”).
  • March 2024, China’s MMG Ltd acquired Khoemacau Copper Mine in the KCB for US$ 1.73 billion. 3 prospecting licences covering 2,517 km2, located east and south of Sua Pan, part of the Makgadikgadi Pans.
  • The Department of Mines designates the administrative area covering the Makgadikgadi as a Lithium Zone (online mining cadastre). Licences are located close to infrastructure, mining operations and areas of active mineral exploration.
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