Slavery charges against Canadian mining …
Among the 100 countries was Eritrea, where the operations of the gold, copper and zinc Bisha mine gave rise to one of the most closely observed pieces of litigation in Canada in recent years ...
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How the Nevsun ruling has Extended Human Rights …
In 2014, three Eritrean miners decided to file a class action suit against Canadian company Nevsun Resources Ltd. Nevsun owned 60% of the Bisha Mining Share Company, which operated the Bisha Gold Mine in Eritrea. The plaintiffs alleged violations of human rights under customary international law (CIL), accusing the corporation of being complicit in the …
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Gold Mining in Eritrea | INN
Gold Mining in Eritrea Investing News Network. Oct. 04, 2015 03:25AM PST. Precious Metals. ... Nevsun Resources (TSX:NSU,AMEX:NSU) Nevsun's Eritrean project is its Bisha Mine.
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Nevsun ships first zinc concentrate from Bisha mine in Eritrea
Nevsun owns 60% of the Bisha mine, which has nine years of reserve life and generates revenue from both copper and zinc concentrates containing gold and silver by-products. The State of Eritrea owns a 40% stake in the mine through the Eritrean National Mining Company (ENAMCO), with 30% of this bought from Nevsun before initial construction.
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Mining and Exploration Activities in Eritrea
Bisha Mining Share Co (BMSC) is a mining company formed by a joint venture agreement between Eritrea's National Mining Corp. (ENAMCO) and Canada's Nevsun Resources Ltd. BMSC managed to successfully start and operate the first modern mine in Eritrea. Bisha mine was commissioned in the end of 2010 and commercial production started …
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Heavy Machinery Equipment (HME) Artisan Trainer job with Bisha Mining …
The Bisha Mine is a high-grade copper, gold, silver and zinc mine that commenced production in February 2011. 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, the ...
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Bisha Mining
The Bisha Mine is a large precious and base metal-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit located 150km west of Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa. Deposit mineralization consists of gold and silver oxides, in addition to copper …
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Nevsun loses bid to stop lawsuit over alleged forced labour in Eritrea
Nevsun Resources (TSX, NYSEMKT:NSU) has lost its bid to have Canada's Supreme Court throw out a lawsuit by former employees who say they were forced to work at the company's copper-zinc Bisha ...
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Ethiopian fighter jets attack Nevsun's Bisha gold mine in …
Bisha gold mine is a large, high-grade volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit located 150km west of Asmara, Eritrea. It is mined using conventional drill and blast open pit mining techniques to remove waste and deliver ore to the run-of-mine stockpile.
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Bisha Project, Eritrea
The Bisha mine produces copper, zinc, gold and silver. Image courtesy of Kin communications. The Bisha mine is operated by Zijin Mining. ... The Bisha project is located 150km west of Asmara in the Gash-Barka region …
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Video: Inside Eritrea's Bisha mines
Jointly owned by the Eritrean state and Canadian company Nevsun, the mines first produced gold and are now yielding copper and zinc. There are hopes there could be more minerals to extract in the ...
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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. Adding to the existing copper flotation and Bisha, the new plant will continue to produce copper, as well as zinc for the remaining current nine-year primary reserve life. ... West Red Lake secures $49m financing for Canadian gold ...
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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 Mining Project is …
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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.
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HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE BISHA MINE IN ERITREA The Bisha Mine is a gold-copper-zinc mine located approximately 150 kilometres west of the Eritrean capital city of Asmara. The Bisha Mine is owned and operated by the Bisha Mining Share Company (BMSC), a company incorporated under Eritrean law.
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What did Canadian mining executives know about possible …
The Bisha mine opened in 2011 and has produced hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of gold, copper and zinc. For years, the mine was the only major source of revenue for the regime of President ...
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China's Sichuan Road to mine copper in Eritrea starting in …
China's Sichuan Road & Bridge Mining Investment Development Corp. is gearing up to kick off copper, zinc, gold and silver production in Eritrea next year, following the country's recent end to ...
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Canadian mine targeted in Eritrea: African media reports
At least two media outlets confirmed the report, including Tigrai Online, an Ethiopian daily news site which stated that the Bisha mine, located 150 kilometres from Asmara, Eritrea, was a target ...
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Nevsun extends life of its Bisha mine in Eritrea …
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 the planned end of operations...
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Eritrea Copper and gold finds could end up breaking …
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, which had been implicated in cases of forced labour and human rights violations ( Africa Intelligence, 24/03/20 ).
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Kerkasha Exploration License – Eritrea – Alpha Exploration
Six (6) Artisanal gold mining Prospects identified. ... – (Augaro Type) Structurally controlled gold-copper deposit. – (Bisha Type) Volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) copper-zinc-gold deposit. – (Jebel Ohier Type) ... During the period of Italian Colonial rule in Eritrea from 1890 until the end of the Second World War, there was a ...
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Eritrea – newcomer to global mining
The emergence in the first quarter of this year of the first modern-day mine in Eritrea, Canadian-based Nevsun Resources Limited's low cost, high grade Bisha goldcopper operation, marks an historic milestone in the development of the country that straddles the horn of Africa as a low-key but growing new entrant on the mining map of the world.
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Video: Inside Eritrea's Bisha mines
Jointly owned by the Eritrean state and Canadian company Nevsun, the mines first produced gold and are now yielding copper and zinc.
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We were forced to work at Western-run mine, say Eritrean …
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.
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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 – …
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Nevsun extends mine life at Bisha zinc-copper mine
Dual-listed Nevsun Resources has announced that, together with its Eritrean partner ENAMCO, it has approved an extension to the Bisha zinc-copper mine in Eritrea, self-funded by existing cash flows from Bisha.
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The Bisha Volcanic-Associated Massive Sulfide Deposit, Western …
Lead isotope ratios of galena and anglesite mineral separates from the Bisha, Bisha Northwest, and Harena deposits have model ages that range from 790 to 770 Ma. This is in contrast to a lead model age of ~720 Ma for the Adi Nefas VMS deposit in the eastern Nakfa terrane and to galena from a nearby gold vein deposit at ~490 Ma.
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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) mineralisation. …
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Mining: Eritrea digs deep for jobs
Eritrea's first mine, the Bisha Mining Share Company, employs about 1,500 people and is a 24- hour operation that produces 688tn of copper concentrate and 166tn of copper every day. ... It is majority owned by Canadian mining company Sunridge Gold, which last year announced a $88m deal to sell its 60% stake in the project to China's Sichuan ...
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Bisha Mining
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 Bisha mine is located about four hours' drive (220 kilometres) west from Asmara, Eritrea's capital, which is at an elevation of 7,000 feet—so the area enjoys a ...
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