TETE MINING

We as BER-ONER & TETE MINING and MARBLE group, have been working in mining sector for more than 20 years. We have and are still operating several mines from Albania to Iran. We have built 4 factories in  Iran and Albania, and after that we began investing also in the marble sector.

Our team which consists of engineers from Turkey – Bulgaria and Albania, have visited from Balkan to Asia for a few times since 2000, and visited the lead – zinc – copper – nickel and chromite metals and also marble quarries.

In Albania, we have established Muenella Copper project (have driven more than 5,000m tunnels, 250,000t/year capacity plant, under the name BERALB)  and now working on Spac Copper Project  (%100 owned under the name TETEALB, Geological reserves 3,6 million tonnes production in 10 years, currently installing the plant) , and we have prepared feasibility projects for Vlahna and Perolaj Chromite Project, Bitinzqa Nickel Projects. We have been working in Albanian government without any problem, since we both have cultural and friendly connections. Also in 2006 we have prepared a feasiblity study for the Bulqiza Chromite mine.

In Macedonia, we were involved in the tender of Sasa and Toranica Lead and Zinc Mine, biggest lead and zinc project in Europe and we were the second company. We also studied Bucim Copper Project , Kavadarci Nickel Project and several marble projects.

In Kosovo, we have visited the mines that we mentioned in Kosovo. We want to strenghten our projects in the Balkans and especially Kosovo.

Copper deposit in Albania, the association between TeteCompany's exploration group and Albania Government began in 2000, we both have cultural and friendly connections, when Tete teams and one industry partners acquired a shareholding from Ber-Alb Limited. The Company has established Muenella Copper project since 2001 (have driven more than 5,000m  gallarys, and 250,000t/year capacity copper concentration plant, under the name BERALB).

Tete Albania (TeteAlb) is a mining service company managing all of Tete’s interests in Albania. TeteAlb is owned 100 percent by Tete. TeteAlb manages interests including exploration, government relations, taxes and other services. TeteAlb is headquartered in Tirana.

TeteAlb has developed Spac Copper deposit Project in North East Albania. (Geological reserve 3,6 million tonnes ore production in 10 years, current capacity of the planned concentration mill).

Usally Mining Projects are located in an extremely  poor reagion of Countries, which we are sure will eventually improve living standards of Country citizens inhabiting in their reagion. Balkanian, Asian and Tuskish citizens have lived through similar cultures as a result extremely warm  cooperation prevails among our citizens.

The Spac Deposit was discovered in about 1954, with the initial exploration being carried out by Russian geologists up until 1960. Underground development was started by Albanians from the Rubic Enterprise, with ore production commencing in 1966. The mine was used as a political prison camp from 1966 until 1991, with much of the mine development and production being carried out manually by prison workers.

During the 34 years of production some 3.1Mt ore were mined and processed at an average grade of 0.88% copper.

From the start, production steadily increased to over 190,000 tons in 1989. However, production then significantly dropped to an average of 45,000 tpa from 1991 to 1996, and then decreased further until production ceased in 1999. From 1977 to 1990, the contained copper in the ore mined would have averaged over 1,000 tons per year and most likely would have generated an average about 6,200 tons of concentrates per year. There has been no production or work carried out on the license area since 1999.

Spac Copper is one of the most productive mines of the area with an active tunnel of 12 km and around 3 million tons of recoverable reserves to be mined. SPAC project is at a very important spot logistically, located at a 90-km distance from Tirana. TETE Albania plans to mine 3.6 million tons of ore with SPAC Project.

PRODUCTION
The projected production method is underground mining and will be operated with excavation filling system in Spac Copper Mine. The production method will be special design underground drilling, blasting, loading, transporting and filling. Underground ore will be taken to the daylight with the transport tunnel of 16m2 section which is produced in 2017 and projected as 1000 meters. After that; the extracted ore will be passed to the process stage.

Process will start with crushing and followed by milling and multiple stepped flotation of copper. The final resulting flotation concentrate will send to smelters for pure copper.

Flotation wastes will be sent to the specially designed storage facility. And it will be dewatered without harming the environment.

Crusher Group
250 ton/hour, %100 -14 mm capacity crushing and elimination plant
Fine Ore Bin
1 Piece – 1000 ton capacity
Grinding Group
2 Piece 3600 * 4200 Ball Mill (Primer – Seconder)
Classification
4pc * 250 Hydrocylone
Agitation Tanks
2pc * 16 m³
Flotation Cells
Tank – Cell Type – 5pc * 10m³, 5pc * 3 m³, 5 * 1,5 m³
Dewatering Group
5500 mm Decantation Tank + 1 Drum Filter
Total Ins. Power
3250 kW