London-listed Kavango Resources has appointed Everjoy Ngomamiti as mining operations GM, effective immediately.

He joins Kavango from dual-listed Barrick Mining Corporation, where he was mining manager at that company’s flagship Bulyanhulu gold mine, in Tanzania. During his time at Bulyanhulu, he led teams responsible for operations, cost control, technical strategy and major capital projects and boasted a record of mine expansion and innovation.

With 19 years of international mining experience across Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Australia, Ngomamiti brings operational and technical expertise to Kavango at a critical stage in its growth, the company points out.

“We are delighted to welcome Everjoy back home to Zimbabwe, as GM of our mining operations,” Kavango CEO Ben Turney highlights.

“Everjoy left Zimbabwe in 2012 and spent nine years working in gold and copper mines in Western Australia. . . We are certain that Everjoy’s experience will prove to be invaluable, as Kavango seeks to introduce modern mechanised mining across its gold portfolio,” he adds.

Turney thanked recruitment firm TM Partners for their work.

“Our primary goal was to find a Zimbabwean candidate with extensive international experience in modern mining. TM Partners ran a superb recruitment process to achieve this.

“Everjoy matched this profile precisely. Now that he has joined Kavango, it marks a major step forward in our growth plan. Everjoy is a seasoned mining leader, with an impressive operational track record. He returns to Zimbabwe to help build something transformative in this country’s goldfields,” Turney adds.

Kavango is exploring for gold deposits in Zimbabwe that have the potential to be developed into commercial-scale production quickly through modern mechanised mining and processing. The company is targeting both openpit and underground opportunities.

Kavango has two projects on the Filabusi greenstone belt, Hillside and Nara.

Kavango owns 100% of Hillside, having exercised its option in April 2024, where it has three high-priority targets it aims to bring into production over the next 18 months.

In parallel to this, Kavango holds an option to acquire the Nara project that has an exercise date towards the end of June, where it is exploring for a large-scale, mechanisable underground deposit. The primary target zone is around the historic N1 mine, where the company is assessing the potential to expand artisanal workings both at depth and along strike.