Nevsun Resources Ltd.

Worker health and safety is our most important company objective. We strive to provide a safe and supportive work environment that has eliminated potential risks to all employees, contractors and subcontractors. We provide ongoing health & safety training to all of our workers and undertake regular spot audits to ensure compliance to international and national standards. All of our employees, contractors and subcontractors have free medical services at our on-site operations.

To/From Home - Our workers come from far and wide and as such we provide free transportation to/from the capital city of Asmara to the Bisha mine site some 4 hours away. In addition, we provide daily bus transportation to/from nearby villages and camp locations to the work site several times a day. This enables our employees, contractors, and subcontractors to get to the work place in a safe and reliable manner. Our buses have comfortable seats and air-conditioning and we have numerous buses to avoid any issue of overcrowding.

Mr. Whelan is a chartered accountant and is from the international accounting firm EY LLP where he was the EY Global Mining & Metals Assurance sector leader, the leader of the EY Assurance practice in Vancouver and previously EY's Canadian Mining & Metals sector leader. Mr. Whelan is a very experienced executive with extensive public company experience having over 20 years of experience working with some of Canada's largest mining companies as well as in-bound global mining companies with operations in Canada. Mr.

Maternity leave - All maternity costs are reimbursable at a rate of 100% upon presentation of the hospital bills, medical certificate and receipts.