Video: Inside Eritrea's Bisha mines
Video: Inside Eritrea's Bisha mines. It isn't always easy to do business in Eritrea but the Bisha mines, a joint Eritrean-Canadian operation, are an exception.
Landmark settlement is a message to Canadian companies …
A general view shows the sag mill and ball mill within the processing plant at the Bisha Mining Share Company (BMSC) in Eritrea, operated by Canadian company Nevsun Resources, on Feb. 18, 2016 ...
Alpha Exploration explores "last frontier" in Eritrea
The Arabian-Nubian shield is known for its VMS (volcanogenic-massive sulphide) occurrences, such as Nevsun Resource's Bisha deposit and Sunridge Gold's Emba Derho deposit on the Asmara Project.
Investment – Eritrean Embassy
The Bisha Mine has received continuous support from the Eritrean government, who granted the Company's mining license in January 2008. The project is the first modern mine in Eritrea. After two years of low cost gold production from oxide ore, the Bisha Mine transitioned to low-cost, high-grade copper production in 2013.
Bisha mine, Eritrea
The current mine life is estimated to be 11 years, projected to 2025, including six months of final processing of remnant oxide ores and gold doré extraction …
Nevsun lawsuit (re Bisha mine, Eritrea)
In 2014, three Eritreans filed suit against Nevsun Resources in Canada alleging the company was complicit in the use of forced labour by their sub-contractor at the Bisha mine in Eritrea. Nevsun rejected the claims as unfounded and declared the Bisha mine has adhered to international standards of labour requirements.
We were forced to work at Western-run mine, say migrants who fled Eritrea
MONEY PIT: The main excavation at the Bisha mine in northwest Eritrea, which is operated by a Canadian-owned company. The mine, pictured in February 2016, is a source of gold, copper and zinc ore.
China's Zijin clears last regulatory condition for $1.4B Nevsun
Nevsun, which owns and operates the Bisha copper-zinc mine in Eritrea, is also developing the Timok copper and gold project in Serbia, pictured here.Image courtesy of Nevsun.
Nevsun settles with Eritrean plaintiffs in relation to …
The plaintiffs alleged that Nevsun — through the Bisha Mine Share Company, its Eritrean subsidiary, and in complicity with the government and military of the State of Eritrea, a country in Eastern Africa — committed gross human rights violations such as slavery, forced labour, torture and crimes against humanity during the …
Nevsun extends mine life at Bisha Zinc-Copper mine in Eritrea
In August 2017, Nevsun decided to reduce the mine life at Bisha due to the operational risk of the original large open-pit cut-back. Since that time, Bisha has increased mining rates and significantly improved metallurgical performance, while metal prices have remained strong, leading the Company to re-visit the larger cut-back option.
Nevsun Resources accepts $1.41 billion take-over bid from Zijin Mining
At the Bisha mine in Eritrea, our objective will be to further extend the life of the mine and explore for new deposits. At the Timok Project in Serbia we intend to rapidly develop the Upper Zone and bring it into production, and continue to advance and define the world-class potential of the Lower Zone."
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Eritrea Copper and gold finds could end up breaking China's …
The only mines currently in production are China SFECO's Zara (gold) from and Zijin Mining Group's Bisha (copper-zinc). The latter company acquired the site in 2019 from Canadian Nevsun Resources, ... Eritrea Eritrean mining projects return to Toronto Stock Exchange.
Bisha Project, Eritrea
The Bisha project is located 150km west of Asmara in the Gash-Barka region of Eritrea, East Africa. It includes mining licences covering 16.5km², a mining agreement covering 39km² and an exploration licence for another 71km². Two other mining sites – Bisha main and the north-west zone – …
Bisha Mining | Bus Ex
Eritrea's economic prospects are looking up with the approaching opening of Bisha Mining's operation. General manager Stan Rogers gives Ruari McCallion the lowdown. ... The project has proceeded pretty rapidly since the exploration company (and Bisha Mining's private-sector parent) Nevsun Resources completed its feasibility study in ...
Bisha Mining
The Bisha Project in Eritrea has been a momentous opportunity for SENET, furthering the company's reach throughout the African continent. SENET commenced work in 2007 on …
The Power of Mining and the Future of Eritrea
Natural resources are a top exporter and the Ports Rehabilitation Project exponentially improved productivity and efficiency. It especially enabled easier access for petroleum imports into Eritrea. …
Major Mines & Projects | Bisha Mine
The Bisha Zinc (Copper) Mine is the largest in-production zinc mine project in Eritrea. Infrastructure construction for the Asheli (Expansion Project) Underground Mining Project is well underway. Owners
Appalling Work Conditions at Bisha-Nevsun Mining Project, Eritrea
Appalling Work Conditions at Bisha-Nevsun Mining Project, Eritrea. By HRCE / July 21, 2011 October 14, 2014; A few months ago, a number of workers from Bisha-Nevsun Project (owned by the Eritrean government and Canada's Nevsun Resources Ltd.) have managed to escape to Ethiopia, and they are now living in one of the refugee camps …
Bisha Project, Eritrea
Bisha Project is located at about 150km west of Asmara in Eritrea, East Africa. The mining project is a major deposit of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) …
Sunridge is now good to go at its Asmara VMS Project in Eritrea
He was a project manager at Bisha and was formerly director of engineering studies at Amac. ... Many African countries have in recent years moved the goal posts and changed the rules of the mining ...
Nevsun completes zinc flotation plant at Bisha mine in Eritrea
Canada-based Nevsun Resources has completed the new zinc flotation plant at its 60%-owned Bisha mine in Eritrea.
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE BISHA …
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT of the Bisha Mine in Eritrea 4 2015 Audit • BMSC is in the process of launching two pilot projects to inaugurate the CAP.
Nevsun extends life of its Bisha mine in Eritrea until the end …
Canada's Nevsun Resources (TSX, NYSEMKT:NSU) is extending the life of its flagship copper-zinc Bisha mine in Eritrea to the end of 2022 — 18 months later than …
UK junior reports good results from its copper/gold …
UK-domiciled junior miner Andiamo Exploration has so far identified a 100 000 oz equivalent copper-gold resource (compliant with the Canadian NI 43 101 standard) at its Yacob Dewar property in ...
Key Projects-Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd.
The Bisha copper-zinc mine is the largest producing zinc project in Eritrea, with an annual mining capacity of 2.4 million tonnes. Location. Gash-Barka, Eritrea. Ownership.
Canadian mine targeted in Eritrea: African media reports
Media reports from East Africa on Saturday claimed that a gold mine partly owned by Canadian company Nevsun Resources (NYSE:NSU, TSX:NSU) was hit by Ethiopian fighter jets.
Major Mines & Projects | Bisha Mine
Snapshot. The Bisha Zinc (Copper) Mine is the largest in-production zinc mine project in Eritrea. Infrastructure construction for the Asheli (Expansion Project) Underground …
Bisha Mining Share Company
Bisha Mining is an Eritrean company formed for the development and operation of the Bisha Mine in western Eritrea. It is owned by Zijin (55%) and the Eritrean National …
Alpha Exploration – Exciting New Gold-Copper Discovery in Eritrea
Worked in Smelting & Mining operations and has been a Director of several companies which have had exploration, development and mining activities in Africa. Executive Director in charge of Business development for Ashanti Goldfields. President and CEO for Nevsun Resources, taking the Company in to Eritrea and the discovery of the Bisha Mine.