The Supreme Court has not satisfied the claim of the State Service of Geology and Subsoil on the legality of the order to cancel the license of the Shakhta 1-3 Novogrodovskaya LLC to mine coal. This is the final ruling. In July 2012 the State Service granted the company a special allowance to mine coal…
The state enterprise Selidovugol has concluded two agreements on the processing of coal valued at 65.98 million UAH. The Central Processing factory “Russia” will process 255 thousand tons of coal from the Kotlyarevskaya mine for 36.98 million UAH, while the Central Processing Factory “Ukraine” will process 200 thousand tons of coal from the Ukraine mine…
Hunger strikes at Selidovugol mines have been going for a week already. The Kurakhovskaya mine employees have been joined by another laboratory worker. While some other laboratory employees are not striking, they nevertheless refuse to work, until they are paid salary for the past 4 months. The strikes began on January 2. On January 4…
Some employees of the Kurakhovskaya mine (state enterprise Selidovugol) have announced a hunger strike because of the salary debts. “Their main demand is to clear salary debts for June, September, October, November and December 2018”, Mikhail Volynets, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, wrote on his Facebook page. So far only 5…
The state enterprise Selidovugol has ordered the Trading House Contract-Energo LLC a cutter-loader valued at 57.2 million UAH. Until September 2019 the company has to deliver an MV410 cutter-loader to the Kotlyarevskaya mine. The company will supply T Machinery A.S. (the Czech Republic) loader. The price of the agreement is 5% below the expected cost…
On October 29 the state enterprises Selidovugol and Mirnogradugol received new management. At the former the acting CEO is now Sergey Pakhomov, and at the latter – Vitaly Sidorchenko. This was reported by Mikhail Volynets, chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine. “At the same time, the Ministry of energy and coal industry wanted…
Kurakhovskaya mine employees have joined the striking miners from Kotlyarevskaya who have blocked the Dnepr – Donetsk road between Pokrovsk and Selidovo because of the salary debts. Both mines are parts of the state enterprise Selidovugol. According to the chairman of the Independent Miners’ Union of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets, the road was blocked leading to…
Since last week strikes and protests have renewed at the state enterprises Mirnogradugol and Selidovugol. The reason is that the enterprises have not received state support promised 2 weeks ago. While the situation is unstable, the mines continue operating. Still, some miners refuse to go underground. The miners’ unions say if the money to clear…