The Bisha Main deposit is a series of four massive sulphide lenses that occur over a 1.2 km north-south trending strike extent. The thickness of the lenses is variable up to 70 m. Mineralisation extends to a depth of 600 m below surface. The massive sulphide bodies comprise a southern zone and a northern zone.
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 ...
Planned total material movement (ore plus waste) at the Eritrea-based Bisha mine of 21.2 Mt is up 15% from 2017.. To achieve this increase, the mine will take advantage of recently purchased additional heavy mining equipment, shortened haul distances from planned waste dumping in the now exhausted north portion of the pit, …
WEBBisha is the first-of-its kind in Eritrea to have milling, crushing and processing facilities. It is designed to allow future expansions. The project benefits from …
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 Nevsun Resources (Eritrea) Ltd. (NREL)
January 29, 2014. Canadian mining firm Nevsun Resources has unveiled its 2014 outlook for planned copper production from the Bisha mine in Eritrea. The mine is operated by Nevsun's 60%-owned subsidiary Bisha Mining Share Company (BMSC), which is planning to produce between 180 million to 200 million pounds of copper this year through ...
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The transportation logistics from the mine site to the Massawa port continue to function well and the Bisha mine has made three ocean shipments of concentrate in September for sales totalling approximately US$21 million. In addition, production and selling costs, offset by the associated sales proceeds, for concentrates produced during …
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 climate that isn't beset by extremes of heat and cold. The project is in a large precious and base metal-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, with a gold and ...
Nevsun Resources announced this week that its board of directors "unanimously recommends" that the company's shareholders accept a $1.41 billion acquisition bid from Zijin Mining. This comes shortly after the company rejected an earlier "hostile" take-over bid from Lundin Mining, which was valued at around $1.4 billion.
The Bisha mine is based on a large precious and base metal-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit 150 km west of Asmara, Eritrea. The deposit is configured in three distinct layered zones, a 35-m-thick surface oxide zone having a high gold and silver content immediately overlying a 30-m-thick, copper-enriched supergene zone, which itself ...