African Pioneer Plc’s (LON:AFP) principal business is to explore opportunities within the natural resources sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on base and precious metals including but not limited to copper, nickel, lead and zinc.
The African Pioneer exploration licenses are located within the Southern African countries of Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. Whereas Namibia has two sea ports on the Atlantic Ocean at Walvis Bay and Luderitz, Botswana and Zambia are both landlocked countries.
The two Namibian Exclusive Prospecting Licenses are located within the Matchless Amphibolite Belt of central Namibia, just north of Windhoek. The eight Botswana Prospecting Licenses are located in the Kalahari Copper belt (six licenses) between Ghanzi and Maun and in the Limpopo Mobile Belt (two licences) close to Selebi-Phikwe. The five Zambia Large Scale Prospecting Licenses are located in the Central Africa Copperbelt in northwestern Zambia (four licenses) as well as in the Zambezi Mobile belt in southern Zambia (one license) not far from Lusaka.
Central African
Copper Belt
The Central African Copperbelt is the largest and most prolific sediment-hosted copper province on Earth. Host to numerous copper-cobalt deposits located in the DRC and Zambia.