“The safety of workers in Georgia’s mines is at serious risk,” reads the beginning of the first paragraph of the Human Rights Watch research “No Year without Deaths: A Decade of Deregulation Puts Georgian Miners at Risk”. The 60-page research says that the risk is caused by “insufficient government regulation and resulting mining practices that…
The salary debts to state miners will have been cleared by the Independence Day. According to the deputy minister of energy and coal industry Anatoliy Korzun, it is expected that until the end of the week over 500 million UAH will be transferred to state mines. Of them 250 million UAH will be provided by…
Cabinet of Ministers has made amendments to the order of using state budget funds for the restructure of coal industry to clear salary debts to miners. The amendments provide for transferring 100 million UAH to pay salary to state miners. 100 million UAH more will be spent to pay for electricity at mines. And 150…
Industrial output in January-July in Kazakhstan grew by 2.7% YoY. Non-ferrous ores mining increased by 17.2% and iron ore by 1.5%. Coal exports went up by 1.9%, to 15.8 million tons. Non-ferrous metallurgy saw an 8.1% growth in output and ferrous metallurgy – 94%. (Ukrainian metal)
Activity of Zhong Ji Mining Company was suspended at Solton-Sary field in Naryn region, the Information Support Department of the Government’s Office reported. However, the day before, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan said “incidents between local residents and foreign workers should not cause suspension or stop of company’s activity”. The decision was made on the…
Mining and Metallurgical Union cannot check Solton-Sary field, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Trade Union Eldar Tadzhibaev reported. According to him, the field employs more than 200 Chinese workers and about 130 local workers. It is not right. “Taking into account unemployment, the lack of demand for work and the presence of appropriately…
The total number of valid licenses for the right to use subsoil was 2,440 in the first half of 2019, the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of Kyrgyzstan reported. At least 475 of them were issued for gold, 104 – for metals, 326 – for coal, 58 – for oil, 1,062 –…
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev held a meeting on the situation at Solton-Sary field, located in Naryn region. During the meeting, its participants heard information of the Minister of Internal Affairs Kashkar Dzhunushaliev about the incident that occurred near Solton-Sary field and the measures taken to ensure public order and security. The Head of…