On August 16, Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works uranium miners went on a strike. The ore mining and salary payment were stopped three months ago because of the expiry of the license to use subsoil resources. The company received the license 20 years ago and now it has expired. But the State Service on geology…
The state enterprise Gosgeonedra has given the license to the Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works in Kropivnitsky (Kirovograd region) to mine for uranium. “I have met with the miners and promised to help. The authorities reacted to my appeal. On July 17, 3 thousand people went to work”, the Radical party leader Oleg Lyashko reported.…
On June 20 the state enterprise VostGOK Ingulskaya mine was allowed to develop a new zone of uranium ores within the range of the blocks-of-flats in Kropivnitsky. At the same time Smolinskaya mine employees intend to go on a strike. VostGOK has been allowed to work at the site for 10 years, and the company…
Ingulskaya mine of the state enterprise VostGOK has stopped mining uranium ore. According to the mine union, the operation stopped on May 31, and the idleness has already resulted in the decrease of output by 45 million UAH, while the local and state budgets will not receive some 2.9 million UAH of various taxes. The…
The state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works has ordered the bookkeeping and auditing services. The company wants its financial reports for the last three years checked. The expected cost of the services is 4.56 million UAH. The audit will be carried at the request of the State Bank of Development of China. The tender…
The Kirovograd regional administration on May 19, refused to allow the Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works start mining operation within the territory of housing construction. The decision has been taken at the request of the Kropivnitsky mayor Andrey Raikovich. He was against allowing the company to work there, as it did not fulfill its social…
Reserves of the Smolinskaya mine, a part of Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works, at the Vatutinskoye uranium deposit are below 1.4 thousand tons. The mine is expected to have finished operation at the deposits in 3-5 years. At present VostGOK operates at 4 uranium deposits: Vatutinskoye, Michurinskoye, Central and Novokonstaninovskoye. The first three have been…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine initiates an audit of foreign purchases of uranium concentrate by the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works. According to the prosecutor of the specialized anticorruption prosecutor’s office Igor Symkiv, under the criminal case of Nikolai Martynenko the energy minister Igor Nasalik has been questioned and…
