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. BMSC is 60% owned by …

Since Nevsun owns 60% of the Bisha Mining Share Company, which owns and operates the mine (the other 40% is owned by the Eritrean government), the plaintiffs claim the Canadian company must have ...

Nevsun's flagship copper-zinc Bisha mine in Eritrea. ... Court throw out a lawsuit by former employees who say they were forced to work at the company's copper-zinc Bisha mine in Eritrea, East ...

On Thursday June 14, Nevsun said that together with Eritrean partner ENAMCO, it has approved an extension of the Bisha zinc-copper mine that will be self-funded by existing cash flow. The updated Bisha Mine plan serves to extend open-pit zinc-copper production to the end of 2022, from mid-2021 previously. In total, the revised mine plan is ...

In August, the company spent $1.26B for a 63% in Serbia's largest copper mining and smelting complex RTB Bor. Nevsun's flagship asset is the Bisha copper-zinc mine in Eritrea, but it's also ...

TSX- and NYSE MKT-listed Nevsun Resources, which is focused on extracting copper from its 60%-owned high-grade Bisha copper mine, in Eritrea, on Monday said it was "excited" about continued ...

In affidavits filed with the court, six men, who have since left Eritrea, said they were forced to work at Nevsun's Bisha from 2008 to 2012 and that they endured harsh conditions at the Eritrean ...

June 15, 2018. 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. The open-pit extension adds 3.3 Mt of high-grade ore to the mill and extends operations through the full year 2022 ...

The mine was held by a consortium comprising Nevsun and the Eritrean government. The claimants said they were part of Eritrea's involuntary and indefinite military conscripts and deployed to ...

The mine is expected to have a life of ten years. It is expected to produce about 1.14 million oz of gold, 11.9 million oz of silver, about one billion lb of zinc and 821 …

Bisha Mine in western Eritrea continues operations as normal. Following reports of a small group of dissident soldiers taking-over the ministry of information building in the capital city of ...

June 15, 2018. Dual-listed Nevsun Resources has announced that, together with its Eritrean partner ENAMCO, it has approved an …

Canadian mining company Nevsun Resources is defending its operations in Eritrea following a damning report by the United Nations that accused the miner of using forced labour in the North African ...

Nevsun ships first zinc concentrate from Bisha mine in Eritrea - Mining Technology. News. 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 …

In 2019, Zijin Mining acquired Nevsun Resources's 60% stake in the Bisha mine. Zijin Mining currently owns a 55% interest in the mine and ENAMCO holds the remaining 45%. Bisha is estimated to have a remaining mine …

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 …

Zijin agreed to pay C$1.86bn in cash (US$1.41bn) for Canadian miner Nevsun Resources, which is developing a copper and gold project in Serbia. That trumped an earlier hostile bid by Canada's ...

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 …

This would be the only underground mine at the project. Gupo Gold has an Indicated gold resource of 952,000 tonnes at 1.53 g/t and an Inferred resource of 1.8 Mt at 1.85 g/t. Our fourth major ...

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 …

Workers at Bisha mine, which is 40% owned by the Eritrean government, say they were forced to live in squalid conditions. Nevsun says it adhered to international standards regarding workplace ...

Canada's Nevsun Resources (TSX:NSU), which owns a majority share of the Bisha copper and gold mine in Eritrea, has released an independent report that found no evidence of forced labour or human ...

Nevsun Resources Ltd. (Nevsun), a corporation incorporated in British Columbia that owns 60% of the Bisha Mining Share Company, appealed from the Court of Appeal's agreement with the …

Nevsun Resources ( NYSEMKT: NSU-OLD) is a mining company with both a producing mine and exploration interests, all in the country of Eritrea. At its current valuation, Nevsun shares...

Nevsun says its investment in Eritrea brings social and economic benefits that mitigate the pressure for emigration. Even so, the number of Eritreans seeking refuge in Europe has increased about ...

Trucks ferry excavated gold, copper and zinc ore from the main mining pit at the Bisha Mining Share Company in Eritrea, operated by Canadian company Nevsun Resources, on Feb. 17, 2016. A Vancouver-based mining firm can be sued for slavery, forced labour and crimes against humanity over its operations in Eritrea, the Supreme …

Nevsun's Bisha copper-zinc mine in Eritrea, Africa. Source Nevsun Resources Ltd. Nevsun Resources Ltd. [NSU-TSX; NYSE AMERICAN], the target of a takeover proposal by Euro Sun Mining Inc. [ESM-TSX, …

Nevsun, which had revenues of $357m (£291m) in 2015, and earlier this year expanded its operations in Eritrea, denies the allegations in the lawsuit and says the mine is a model development.

B.C.-based mining company Nevsun Resources Ltd. is being sued for its alleged complicity in the forced labour, slavery and torture of workers at the Bisha gold, zinc and copper mine in Eritrea ...

Last week, the company spent $1.26bn for a 63% in Serbia's largest copper mining and smelting complex RTB Bor. Nevsun's flagship asset is the Bisha copper-zinc mine in Eritrea, but it's also ...

Workers and visitors walk within the processing plant at the Bisha Mining Share Company (BMSC) in Eritrea, operated by Canadian company Nevsun Resources, February 18, 2016.

Nevsun was the 60% majority owner of the Bisha Mining Share Company (the Bisha Company) in Eritrea, which operated the Bisha mine, with the other 40% owned by the Eritrean National Mining Company. The Bisha Company hired a contractor, who in turn entered into sub-contracts with two companies (one controlled by the Eritrean …