Rally against environmental pollution took place near the building of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek. According to the organizer of the rally Eleri Bitekchi, the reason for the protest was alleged transfer of Sarychat-Ertash nature reserve in Issyk-Kul region to Kumtor gold mining company. “Barsbek initiative group intends to sue all mining companies, in…
Up to 30 miners have gone to the mine in Georgia’s western Tkibuli municipality and have plans to stay there until their employer gives them and others their salaries and the government decides on the fate of mines. Work has been suspended in the Mindeli and Dzidziguri mines of Tkibuli since July 16, 2018 after…
As of September, debts to state miners have reached 900 million UAH. According to the chairman of the Confederation of Independent Unions and the Independent Miners’ Union Mikhail Volynets, in October the debt will grow to 1.3 billion UAH. “And the trend of the debt growth will persist. The miners will be forced to strike”,…
As a result of the cave-in of rock a miner was mortally injured in the city of Rovenki. “On September 22 the taskmaster of the mine named after Cosmonauts perished”, the emergency ministry of the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, reported. The body has already been lifted to…
Rosgeologia and the Managing Company UGK LLC have signed an agreement on cooperation in subsoil use. The document presupposes creation of joint ventures to carry out investment projects on prospecting, estimating and developing deposits in Russia and abroad. Moreover, the companies plan to cooperate in further prospecting of unused deposits in order to put them…
“Despite the president’s fight against corruption, raiders continue to act in the mining sector,” said Esenzhan Musurmankulov, Director of the Kyrgyz branch of Golden & Silver. According to him, group of companies S.H.G Golden & Silver Ltd bought shares of Ak-Tuz OJSC from the State Property Management Fund in 1998. The company invested in geological…
One person has been killed at the Skochinsky mine in the occupied city of Donetsk on September 4. “At about 09:30 a blast occurred on the territory of the Skochinsky mine. The explosion occurred on the surface – in the wasteland not involved in production. One person who was an employee of the mine was…
“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…