A Year of Strategic Transformation for BoD

 

BoD’s mining is becoming a modern exploration firm 

Recently Botswana Diamonds plc (BoD) announced its audited annual results for the year ended 30 June 2025. The result report said, in 2025, Botswana Diamonds made a significant shift in our strategic positioning as a mining company. 

For over two decades, Botswana Diamonds has been known for its disciplined, technically focused diamond exploration across Southern Africa. While diamonds remain central to our identity and core strengths, BoD have responded to fundamental changes in the diamond market by diversifying into critical minerals. 

This evolution arises not from abandoning our roots, but from leveraging them. Botswana remains underexplored for many commodities, despite its exceptional mining code, political stability, and extensive geological database. 

Our longstanding presence, coupled with deep operational expertise and proprietary knowledge, positions us uniquely to capitalise on these emerging opportunities. The diversification effort is not speculative. It is built on robust data, rigorous analysis, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), which has allowed us to extract new value from over twenty years of accumulated geoscientific data. 

We also believe that we are aligned with government policy in terms of both continuing diamond exploration while diversifying into alternative potential mineral resources for the benefit of Botswana’s future economic prosperity.  

Botswana Diamonds said they are harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Drive Discovery! The Company’s strategic collaboration with Planetary AI Ltd was one of the defining initiatives of the year. Our objective was simple but ambitious: to use advanced semantic AI to evaluate the vast, disparate mining related data collected over decades, and to identify previously overlooked mineralisation potential across Botswana.  

AI identified seven entirely new kimberlite targets in areas that had not previously been considered prospective. Eleven high-quality critical metal targets were generated including PGMs, silver, and gold prospects. The platform integrated more than 375,000 km of airborne geophysics, 228,000 soil samples, 32,000 drill logs, and extensive open-source datasets. Over 57 mineral deposit models were applied to generate high-resolution prospective areas.  

This is one of the most advanced applications of AI in mineral exploration undertaken in Botswana and positions BoD among the industry’s early adopters of data-driven exploration at scale. The initiative has opened new frontiers, accelerated our targeting pipeline, and derisked the early stages of exploration. It also sends a powerful message about the future of the Company!  

Botswana Diamonds is becoming a modern exploration business—leveraging technology, innovation, and decades of knowledge to unlock new value.