Mar 11, 2020 The Canadian company co-owns the giant copper, zinc and gold mine in the impoverished East African country in partnership with the state-owned Eritrean National Mining …
Feb 12, 2016 A Vancouver-based mining company that struck gold in the small East African country of Eritrea is being accused in a B.C. lawsuit of permitting forced labour to be used in the construction of its ...
Sep 22, 2020 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 ).
Gold mining in Eritrea was carried out in the VMS deposits in 2010. A treatment plant at the Bisha Mine was commissioned by the Nevsun that hoped to commence with its commercial production in 2011. A feasibility study on the Debarwa gold, copper, zinc, and silver deposit was …
Nov 25, 2020 In a matter of few years these countries, organisations and the Eritrean people had become the main beneficiaries of the abundant natural resources in Eritrea and for the first time in the history of Africa, the Eritrean government was in a 40:60 joint-venture deal in the first gold mine at Bisha with a Canadian mining company, Nevsun Resources ...
Jul 02, 2013 Bisha mining company is jointly owned by Nevsun Mining (a Canadian company) and Eritrean mining company (owned by the Eritrean government).[ii] In January 2013, Human Rights Watch issued an extensive report titled “Hear no Evil: Forced Labor and Corporate Responsibility in Eritrea’s Mining Sector.” The following is what came in the report:
Burkina Faso: At Least 37 Dead in Attack On Canadian Mining Convoy DW, 6 November 2019. Gunmen ambushed five buses carrying workers for a Canadian gold mining company in an attack near a mine …
Aug 19, 2015 The UN has accused a Canadian company of using forced labour at Eritrea’s only active mine in a hard-hitting report released in June.. Nevsun …
Mar 01, 2020 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 …
Mar 31, 2016 It is majority owned by Canadian mining company Sunridge Gold and holds copper, gold and zinc. ... An estimated 70,000 people died in a border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000. ... Prices Expected To Skyrocket From Pipeline Cyber Attack. May 10 2021.
May 27, 2020 Residents in Ethiopia’s Oromia state have long claimed that contamination from a gold mine owned by an Ethiopia-born Saudi tycoon has led to health problems. Journalist Tom Gardner spent weeks collecting their testimonies amid talk that the mine could be set to re-open, even though the government has not publicly addressed local grievances.
Vancouver -- Several Canadian-based companies have been ordered to halt their exploration programs in Eritrea. According to a press release released by the companies collectively, the Eritrean Ministry of Mines gave no reason for ordering the work...
Mar 25, 2015 The Bisha Mine experienced an act of vandalism... Nevsun Resources Ltd. Pro-Ethiopian regime bloggers reported that “Ethiopian Airforce conducted airstrike at a gold mine processing facility, near the capital Asmara”, so far both Ethiopian and Eritrean officials didn’t confirm whether or not the airstrike took place. Vancouver based Nevsun Resources Ltd.
Aug 21, 2020 David Daoud, vice president of exploration and geology at newly listed Sun Peak Metals (TSXV: PEAK), was part of the exploration teams that discovered the Bisha and Asmara gold deposits in Eritrea when he worked for Nevsun Resources and its sister company, Sunridge Gold, in the early 2000s.. Now he believes there is an opportunity to repeat those two home-runs across the border in Ethiopia …
Nov 19, 2019 Five months before an ambush killed 39 colleagues, local workers at a Canadian-owned gold mine in Burkina Faso pleaded with managers to fly them to the site rather than go by a road prone to attacks, two people said. The employees wanted the same protection as expatriate staff who fly to the mine in helicopters […]
Mar 23, 2015 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. 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 ...
Mar 23, 2015 Sudanese newspaper Al-Sahafa was the first to report that the attack was a military operation from Ethiopia. “The Bisha gold mine which is about 150 km from the city of Asmara is on fire and a huge fire and smoke can be seen from far away,” the reports claimed. More On This Topic
A government statement warned of additional operations if Eritrea failed to stop being a “launching pad for attacks against Ethiopia”. In a statement after Ethiopia announced its operations, the Eritrean Government dismissed Ethiopian accusations that it supported the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) to attack the tourists.
Oct 24, 2020 3 refugees from Eritrea alleged forced work at a gold, copper and zinc mine controlled by Nevsun 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 …
Nov 14, 2020 By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least three rockets were fired at Eritrea's capital from Ethiopia on Saturday night, five regional diplomats said, a major escalation of a conflict pitting Ethiopian government troops against rebellious
Mar 22, 2015 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 …
Mar 22, 2015 A Sudanese newspaper, Al-Sahafa on it’s 21, 2015 print reported Ethiopian fighter jets bombarded the only profitable mining company in Eritrea. The Ethiopian bombing operation took place on March 20, 2015. The Bisha gold mine which is primarily run by Nevsun a Canadian corporation is reportedly produces from 300 to 400 million dollars a year.
Mar 23, 2015 Canadian mine targeted in Eritrea: African media reports
Mar 21, 2015 Ethiopian fighter planes bombed the site of Eritrea's Bisha goldmine, reported Al-Sahafa, a leading Sudanese Arab daily in its March 21 edition. According to the newspaper, heavy plumes of smoke and fire bellowed from the mine located 150 kilometers from the capital city, Asmara.
Mar 30, 2021 Positives from Ethiopia’s 2019: Nobel gold, sherger project, satellite, green legacy. 2019 saw Ethiopia under Abiy Ahmed continue to hog the news headlines for good reasons. Back in 2018 when Abiy took over, democratic reforms, peace with Eritrea and gender-par cabinet seemed to have earned Abiy the reformist title. Still in 2018, the first …
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