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Alrosa Halts Search for Some of Missing Miners
Aug 15, 2017 7:01 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... Dangerous conditions have forced Alrosa to abandon its
rescue efforts in a section of the Mir mine where half of the workers who went
missing earlier this month are thought to be located, the company said Tuesday.
Rescuers cannot descend to the area, known as “level minus 310,”
because water in the shaft is more than a meter high, making it a threat to
their lives, the Russian miner explained.
Alrosa has informed the families of miners whose electronic
tags showed they were on this level when the mine flooded on August 4. More
than a week after the incident, eight staff members are still unaccounted for
at the underground site in the country’s Yakutia region.
“According to electronic tags on all the miners’ helmets,
four of eight missing miners were supposedly located on level minus 310 at the
time of the accident,” Alrosa said in its Tuesday statement, adding that the
emergency efforts would now focus on level minus 210.
In the days immediately after the flood, rescue staff lifted
143 workers to safety, out of the 151 who had been underground. The
Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has launched a criminal probe
to establish whether safety violations occurred at the Mir deposit, but Alrosa
has insisted the underground mine was compliant with all requirements. |
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Tags:
Alrosa, mining, Mir, Mir mine, Rapaport News
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