In the depths of the Yakut ores

In Yakutia, eight miners remain underground at the Mir Mir emergency mine of the Mir Mir. The rescue operation continues.

On Saturday morning, one miners independently got in touch. "Shakhtar Alisher Mirzaev, discovered by rescuers at the 410th horizon, was raised to the surface. He was taken to the hospital, before that, rescuers provided his first aid," the press service said.

The fate of another eight miners is unknown. "The mines -rescuers examined almost 7,000 m of non -flowing mining. Work is carried out in a clock in the clock, eight mining and vodolazes conduct a survey of flooded areas. According to the operational headquarters, the places of the probable location of mining workers are determined," the Ministry of Emergencies said.

“We have checked now - the entire stem farm is working stably, this indicates that ensuring the vital activity at the bottom continues,” said the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Vladimir Puchkov. Meanwhile, individual workings remain flooded or clogged with mud, said Yakutia, Yegor Borisov. Experts solve the problem of freeing the mine from water and pulp, trying to find new passages to those areas where people can be.

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. 142 of them were raised to the surface on the day of the accident. Two received easy injuries, they provided medical care.

As stated in Alrosa, the cause of flooding was an uncontrolled increase in water flow 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.

Since March, the post of president of Alrosa has been occupied by 36-year-old Sergey Ivanov , the son of the ex-head of the presidential administration.