Ukraine: Donetsk miners go on a strike

The employees of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 1 mine and partially of the Mine named after Surgay have started striking because of non-payment of salary. The wage debt reaches 35 million UAH. The miners have blocked a highway. The Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 1 miners have also suspended coal mining. (Ukrainian metal)

Kyrgyzstan: seven fields to be put out to tender

It is planned to put out to tender the promising deposit Sulukta, Kadamdzhai, Kara-Keche, Tuyuk-Kargasha, Togolok, Naukatskoe and Dzhetim in 2019, the Chairman of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use Emil Osmonbetov said. The Prime Minister Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev has held a meeting on the situation in the mining industry. He stressed the…

Ukraine: energy minister on debts to miners

Gosuglepostach and Centerenergo have to clear salary debts to miners of the Lviv-Volyn basin. “My task now is to make these enterprises start paying you”, the energy and coal industry minister Igor Nasalik said at the miners strike. According to him, the main problem is that there appeared private organizations in the coal sale scheme…

Ukraine: state-owned enterprise management to be outside Coal Ministry’s competence

Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said that the function of managing state-owned enterprises should not fall within the ministry’s competence. He stated this at a meeting with experts of the government-public initiative “Together against corruption”, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service reported. “The ministry should be responsible for forming policy and…