The Miners Union of Ukraine has applied to the International Labor Organization, a part of UN, with the complaint on the breach of their rights due to the non-payment of salary. According to the Independent Miners Union chairman Mikhail Volynets, the salary debts to miners are growing. So far the debt amounts to 1 billion…
Last week as the result of the flooding at the mine one person perished in the pro-Russia militants-controlled town of Snezhnoye in Donetsk region. The accident happened on August 11. 2 miners were at the accident site. The body of one of them was recovered on August 12. The search for the second miner is…
Flooded mines and destroyed enterprises after the seized territories of Donbass are returned to Ukraine will not be restored. “32 mines are flooded or are being flooded. None will restore them. Never. Some enterprises have been dismantled and taken to Russia, some have been plundered for scrap. It is impossible to resume their operation”, deputy…
Seven individuals detained as a result of the tragedy in the Tkibuli Mindeli mine on April 5 have been officially charged, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. “The investigation found that the detainees had violated the requirements of “technical regulations on safety of coalmines” that prohibited work in shafts where safety rules were violated. Despite…
The speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy has signed the decree on state coal industry financing. The decree has been sent to the president Petro Poroshenko. 261 members of the parliament voted in favor of the decree. The decree aims to clear salary debts to state miners. (Ukrainian metal)
The Buzhanskaya mines Nos. 9 and 10 in Novovolynsk will be checked for legality of using artesian wells. The mines did not pay for the water taken from the wells. Moreover they pollute the water. The deputy chairman of the Volyn regional state administration Sergey Kosharuk has ordered the relevant departments to check this. (Ukrainian…
Results of the work to find gold, copper, platinum, and uranium ore in Belarus were revealed by Vasily Kolb, Deputy Head of the Central Office for Natural Resources, Head of the Geology Office of the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry, at a press conference on July 19. According to the source, work to…
Miners of Lviv region have started receiving salary for June. According to the Lviv Regional State Administration press-service, the state enterprise Lvivugol has received 12 million UAH from the sale of coal. All the money was spent to pay salary for June. It is reported that miners received 9% of the overall amount of June…