The new Diaz onshore windfarm will be able to reach an energy capacity of 44 MW and will produce 230 GWh of renewable electricity per year once commissioned by the end of 2025. The facility, owned by Innovent, is located near Lüderitz, a port town in the Karas region ofContinue Reading
The town of Outapi in the Omusati Region is set to host its first ever Beauty Business Exhibition on Saturday, 2 August and Sunday, 3 August 2025 at the O’Zodiac Star Pension Hotel. The exhibition aims to spotlight the growing beauty, spa, and wellness industry while creating a powerful platformContinue Reading
Aldoro’s second batch of assays from Kameelburg, Namibia, has delivered the highest grades of niobium and rare earths recorded so far, confirming a substantial southwest extension of the world-class polymetallic discovery. Assays for holes ND004D and DD006 ended in mineralisation and remain open at depth, with DD004D returning the highestContinue Reading
In a powerful demonstration of responsible mining’s economic impact, B2Gold’s Otjikoto Mine in Namibia injected substantial value into the national economy in 2024, channelling over $40.8 million (about N$728 million) into employee welfare and contributing a formidable $129 million (about N$2.3 billion) in taxes and royalties to the government. TheseContinue Reading
Namibia’s economic fortunes in 2025 are set to be heavily influenced by the volatile and increasingly bearish trajectory of global base metal prices, according to a stark analysis by Theo Klein, economist at Oxford Economics Africa. While the country’s mining sector has been a crucial engine for recent growth, deterioratingContinue Reading
FNB Namibia, through the FirstRand Namibia Foundation, has reaffirmed its commitment to improving the lives of differently abled Namibians with a donation of N$200,000 to the Steps2Walk Outreach Project. This marks the 3rd consecutive year of partnership between FNB Namibia and Steps2Walk, a global non-profit organisation that provides surgical careContinue Reading
Koryx Copper Inc. has unveiled highly encouraging results from its ongoing Phase 2 drilling campaign at the advanced-stage Haib Copper Project in southern Namibia, revealing wider mineralization zones, higher grades, and significant molybdenum potential, though operational hurdles have prompted a revision to the overall drilling schedule. Assay results from twelveContinue Reading
Financial services firm Standard Bank has partnered with wind power project company InnoVent SAS to fund the development and construction of the 44 MW Diaz wind project, which will be Namibia’s largest wind energy farm. Standard Bank will provide N$1.2-billion towards the construction cost of the project. The Diaz windContinue Reading
For decades, the Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP) operated strictly as a diagnostic service provider, its laboratories processing millions of tests annually for diseases ranging from HIV to COVID-19. But when global supply chains crumbled during the pandemic, leaving NIP scrambling for basic laboratory consumables like specimen collection tubes, theContinue Reading
ASX listed Noronex Limited has picked up experienced mining industry player Victor Rajasooriar as its new managing director and chief executive officer in a move set to realise its ambitions across the coveted Kalahari Copper Belt in southern Africa. Rajasooriar, a mining engineer with over 25 years of global experience,Continue Reading
