VANCOUVER, April 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Nevsun Resources Ltd. ("Nevsun") NSU (NYSE MKT: NSU ) and Reservoir Minerals Inc. ("Reservoir") (TSX Venture: RMC) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their respective companies. The combination creates a diversified mid-tier base metals company with a cash producing operating asset in Bisha, a high grade open pit copper-zinc mine, and 100% ownership in the upper zone of the Timok Copper Project in Serbia ("Upper Zone"), a high grade copper and gold development project.