Debswana adopts OREP to extend Orapa

The resource at Orapa is expected to run out in 2026 after more than half a century of high value diamond production and pivotal support to the country's economic development. However, under the Orapa Resource Extension Project (OREP), geologists and strategists at Debswana hope to tap into resources below the current level being mined.

Last week, Orapa geologists explained that drilling under Phase 2 would take place at Cut 3 phase, or at depths between 265 and 475 metres below surface. Drilling studies will enable geologists to estimate and later determine the amount of diamonds below the current mining level, which will inform the feasibility of expanding the mine and the method of extraction to be used.