Behake general trading and investment company have different kinds of sisters business groups. such as Behake marble and granite factory, real estate(weserbe and denbi real estate), Behake constructor P.L.C. and Behakoch By Delegation Property Management and Case Handling Service P.L.C.
Behake Marble and Granite Factory P.L.C is one of sister company of Behake General Trading and Investment P.L.C and also the core businesses of all sister’s companies, which is established recently and by now handing over of all nine different quarries at different locations and different types of dimension stone those are Marble, Granite, Greenstone which has been extensively used as exterior and Interior cladding of floor and wall finish in public, commercial building and monuments. At this moment, the construction of factory foundation is on progress.
Deposits of Marble and Granite
According to the geological investigation, there are an investigation and a huge deposit of granite in Alitena, Mereb Leke, L/Mai Chew, T/Mai Chew, and N/Adiet Wereda. Moreover, there, is also there is sufficient deposit of marble in S/T/Emba, Werri Leke, and N/Adiet. Hence detail geological investigation is conducted to evaluate and delineate potential deposits for further development. Most of the deposits have a massive deposit of granite, greenstone, and marble with promising blocks.
Adi Elen and Monday granites have a similar geomorphological setting in which they are formed by massive consulates of blocks covering extensive area while Megauma granite is large batholite having a massive body. Economic blacks can be extracted at any size and both deposits are promising for mining. Similarly, Ge,ba, Felafil and Emnizongi marble are massive deposits. Moreover, there is no removable overburden during mining. It is easy to extract the required block sizes from the site and it is economically promising at most with limited overburden toward the east.
Estimation of marble and granite deposits
Locality |
Area in m2 |
Thickness in m |
Volume in m3 |
Overburden in % |
Net volume in m3 |
|
1. Greenstone |
120,000 |
30 |
3,600,000 |
30% |
2,520,000 |
|
2. Megauma granite |
200,000 |
20 |
4,000,000 |
30% |
2,800,000 |
|
3. Geba marble |
74,383 |
2,231,490 |
40% |
1,338,894 |
||
4. Felafile marble |
198,000 |
30 |
5,940,000 |
40% |
3,564,000 |
|
4.1. Light Gray Marble |
97,065 |
30 |
2,426,625 |
30% |
1,698,637 |
|
4.2. Black Marble |
83,522 |
25 |
2,088,050 |
30% |
1,461,635 |
|
5. Emni Zongi marble |
83,965 |
25 |
1,259,475 |
40% |
755,685 |
|
6. Mongay granite |
200,000 |
15 |
5,000,000 |
30% |
3,500,000 |
|
7. Coretseneo granite |
25 |
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Black granite |
72,193 |
20 |
1,443,860 |
30% |
1,010,702 |
|
Gray granite |
92,469 |
20 |
1,849,380 |
30% |
1,294,566 |
|
8. Tabla Granite |
162,285 |
30 |
5,768,550 |
30% |
4,037,985 |
|
9.Mai Berazio granite |
156,000 |
10 |
1,560,000 |
40% |
936,000 |
|