The accident in Yakutia

In Yakutia, an accident occurred in the mine of the Mir Rudnik MIRASOSING company, Interfax reports . The fate of 9 miners remains unknown.

On Friday at 16:30 local time (10:30 Moscow time) there was a breakthrough of 200 thousand cubic meters of groundwater into a mine from a quarry. After a few hours, the water subsided.

At the time of the accident, 151 people were in the mine.

As reported on the Alrosa website, as of 00:00 local time (18:00 Moscow time), 142 Shakhters were raised to the surface. The search for more than nine people continues. Some of them have a unilateral connection.

A plan for the liquidation of the accident was introduced, an operational headquarters was created, a rescue operation is underway, the company said. All emergency services immediately arrived at the scene of the accident, mining rescuers work at the facility. More than 100 people take part in the operation, including more than 30 mining rescuers and underground divers, as well as more than 10 units of equipment. The head of the Ministry of Emergencies Vladimir Puchkov and the President of Alrosa Sergey Ivanov flew to Mirny.

Puchkov introduced Mirny in the city, where the mine is located, an emergency regime. All emergency services are transferred to a round -the -clock mode of operation.

There are no victims among the workers who have risen to the surface.

The Alrosa said that the cause of flooding was an uncontrolled increase in the flow of water from the cup of the waste quarry. This happened due to the "sharp deterioration of mining and geological conditions" and the erosion of the hosts in the career, representatives of the company explained. They argue that the work on the mine was carried out with safety requirements, the mine was never recognized as emergency and production has never been suspended due to emergency situations.

From the moment the mine put into operation, he constantly encountered the problem of the waterfront. The volume of flow of technical water significantly exceeded the planned level, which threatened safety. On July 29, local media reported that in connection with an increase in the flow of water on the horizon of 320 meters, the MIR MIR ministry management decided to install additional pumping units on the horizon. In addition, the drilling of additional wells to the Mir quarry was started to organize water flowing water into the main water collector on the horizon of 210 meters.

On the same day, on July 29, Alrosa reported about the collapse of the breed at the mine of the Mir mine, as a result of which one of the workers was blocked in the car. The mine worked as usual, the evacuation was not carried out. The blocked worker was saved and taken to the city hospital.

Mir Miro - the first developed radio deposit of diamonds in Yakutia. It was opened in 1955, the quarry has a diameter of 1.2 km and a depth of 525 meters. Open development was discontinued in 2001. Since 2009, mining has been carried out only on an underground mine. Now about 11 percent of Alrosa mining the Mir underground mine accounts.