13 March 2025

Botswana Diamonds PLC

("Botswana Diamonds" or the "Company")

Botswana Diamonds snaps Up Polymetallic acreage following comprehensive Artificial Intelligence driven exploration programme in Botswana

Highlights

·  Eleven Prospecting Licences applied for to secure key polymetallic targets identified by our recent Artificial Intelligence ("AI") exploration programme in Botswana.

·    Prospecting Licenses include Copper, Silver, Cobalt, Gold, Nickel, Zinc and PGM targets.

Following the comprehensive country-wide AI exploration programme in Botswana where the initial focus was on diamonds, this has been expanded to look for hidden polymetallic deposits. This assessment has reached an advanced stage where eleven Prospecting Licenses have now been applied for covering 7,322 square kilometres.

The Prospecting License applications focus on five mineralisation types:

·    Besshi (volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit): predominantly Copper.

·    Greenstone: Copper - Nickel

·    MVT (Mississippi Valley-type deposits): Lead and Zinc.

·    Sedex (sedimentary exhalative deposits): Lead, Zinc and Silver.

·    Ultramafic: Platinum Group Metals

Chairman, John Teeling, commented: "Our comprehensive, country-wide AI driven exploration programme in Botswana initially focused on diamonds.  During the initial analysis of the big database, it became clear that the AI technology could be used to identify other unknown minerals opportunities and so it turned out. Our analysis so far has identified a series of targets in copper cobalt, zinc and gold. We have applied for eleven prospecting licenses, and I am pleased to report that the applications have been accepted".

This release has been approved by James Campbell, Managing Director of Botswana Diamonds plc, a qualified geologist (Pr.Sci.Nat), a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa, a Fellow of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Metals and Mining (UK) and with over 38-years' experience in the diamond sector.

A copy of this announcement is available on the Company's website, at

www.botswanadiamonds.co.uk

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About Botswana Diamonds

Botswana Diamonds (BOD) is a diamond explorer focused in the Kalahari Desert, where it holds prime diamond exploration acreage as well as KX 36 diamond discovery. Ongoing work on the acreage has identified five drill ready targets. An AI-driven analyse of the large BOD database has identified seven previously unreported Kimberlite anomalies as well as a number of polymetallic anomalies.

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