Employees of the Scheglovskaya-Glubokaya mine in the temporarily occupied Donbass received 4 and 6 rubles as salary. “4 and 6 rubles, not thousand rubles. This shows the level of salary and life in the so-called republic”, wrote one of the miners in the social networks. Miners also share screenshots of their wages. One “boasts” receiving…
As of December 1, 2018 the salary debt to state miners was over 196 million UAH. The total indebtedness was 234.7 million UAH, up by 84.1 million UAH since the start of the year. Recently the Kurakhovskaya mine employees have announced a hunger strike because of non-payment of salary. (Ukrainian metal)
During the cave-in of rock at a mine in Toretsk (Donetsk region) one miner perished. The cave-in occurred at the depth of over 1 thousand meters. 8 miners were in the shaft at the moment. One of them was killed. (Ukrainian metal)
Yurga Machine-Building Works has concluded an agreement with the Perspective Technologies LLC to modernize ZT6800/18/38 anchoring sections for the Listvyazhnaya mine. The modernization is necessitated by the increase of the rock mined. Prior to signing the agreement the works has assembled a trial sample of the anchoring. The works has to modernize 143 sections of…
Employees of the Partyzanska Coal Mine in Antratsit (the town in Luhansk region occupied by Russian proxy forces), attempted to organize a strike demanding payment of wage arrears. A journalist and blogger Denis Kazansky, citing a wife of one of the strikers, described the details of the response of the self-styled “authorities”. “Our husbands went…
The Eurasian Mining and Geology Forum “Digitalization of the Mining Industry for Joint Development and Prosperity in Eurasia” is taking place in Minsk, the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus reported. Taking part in the forum are about 300 participants from 17 countries of the CIS, Europe and…
300 million UAH, provided to the coal industry by the Cabinet of Ministers on October 24, were transferred to the accounts of the coalmining enterprises. The miners have already started receiving their salary. At the same time, this will only cover a part of the salary debts. For example, Lisichanskugol mines received 62 million UAH,…
The Cabinet of Ministers will transfer some 500 million UAH to clear salary debts to state miners. “The funds will also be used to cover losses of Ukrainian mines in state ownership”, the Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman declared. On July 13 the Verkhovna Rada decided to pay additionally 1.4 billion UAH of subsidies to state…