The state agency on subsoil use has announced an auction for the tungsten-iron-copper ore deposit in Sverdlovsk region. The initial price is 2.137 billion rubles. The territory includes the Volkovskoye deposit. The B and C1 ore reserves are estimated at 115.9018 million tons and C2 – 9.859 million tons. The license will be valid for…
The minister of energy and environment protection Alexei Orzhel believes it is inefficient to unite state coal assets into one holding. “We have not supported the creation of the National Coal Company. When we unite something profitable with something profitless, it becomes less efficient, and it is difficult to decide what to build, modernize or…
The Cabinet of Ministers suggests increasing financing of state mines in 2020 by 622.8 million UAH. This is stipulated in the draft budget for 2020 in order to bring the mines to the profitable level. At the same time profitless mines will be closed. The Verkhovna Rada also supported amendments to the state budget 2019…
A roof of the electrical shop on the territory of the Belozerskaya mine caught fire. According to the State Emergency Service, there were no casualties or injured. The firefighters extinguished the fire on the area of 20 square meters. 233 miners were evacuated to the surface. (Ukrainian metal)
On October 29 miners from across Ukraine intend to hold a protest meeting in Kyiv. They demand to clear their salary debts of $47 million. As of October 21 the debts to miners have reached 1.172 billion UAH. Verkhovna Rada has already passed the amendments to the state budget at the first reading. But the…
A mineworker has died in the western Georgian region of Chiatura. The tragic accident happened at the Darkveti mine at around 10 pm, claiming the life of Gaga Botchorishvili, 26. The Interior Ministry has launched an investigation to reveal the exact reason behind his death. In its recent report “No Year without Deaths’: A Decade…
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved of amendments to the state budget in 2019, having provided 1 billion UAH to pay salary to miners. In particular, 120 million UAH is envisioned to clear salary debts to Lisichanskugol miners. Earlier it was reported that some mines stopped operation over the non-payment of salary to the employees.…
Lugansk region miners have announced a strike and refuse to go underground until their salary debts are cleared. On October 8 employees of the Novodruzhevskaya mine, a part of Lisichanskugol, stopped extracting coal. The salary debt to them amounts to 120 million UAH. The employees of the nearby mine named after Kapustin have warned the…