Economic Geology Division


The main objectives of the Economic Geology Division are to investigate and report on Namibia’s mineral potential and to promote sustainable development of and investment into Namibia’s natural resources.
The major activities of the Economic Geology Division include:
Compiling mineral occurrence descriptions for each of the 1:250 000 (157KB) geological map sheet using archival exploration reports and other sources Incorporating archival economic geology data into the Earth Data Namibia database for easy retrieval by mineral investors and researchers Continuously updating the 1:1 000 000 Mineral Map of Namibia Providing geological information to mineral investors and researchers as well as the general public Mineral identification Reviewing and assessing exploration reports, which are submitted by exploration companies in accordance with the Minerals (Exploration and Mining) Act of 1992 Publishing in-house reports on various commodities, documented in the Mineral Resource Series Compiling prospectivity maps Promoting mineral investment by attending and exhibiting at major international mineral investment conferences such as PDAC, MIGA, SEG, INDABA and dimension stone related trade fairs like at Verona, Italy, and at StoneTech in Nuremberg, Germany. A list of private geological consultants can be found here.

Namibia hosts a wide variety of mineral deposits such as diamond placers, the world’s largest open pit uranium mine and the world renowned Tsumeb base metal mine. Continued exploration efforts by local and foreign exploration companies will ensure that new mineral deposits are discovered and developed. Mining and exploration companies are actively exploring for diamonds, uranium, gold, base metals, rare metals, industrial minerals. Namibia also has several active dimension stones quarries and processing plants. Furthermore, companies are exploring for fossil fuels, of which the offshore Kudu gas field will be exploited in the near future.