The fatal accident on the Mir diamond mine on August 4, which cost the lives of eight miners, will be investigated independently. According to Gem Konnect, Alrosa’s board will appoint an independent auditor to assess the causes of the accident.
According to the piece, SRK Consulting and DMT group have been shortlisted among possible candidates. The audit “will look at the design and construction of the Mir mine, its operational stages, as well as all the decisions and actions that were taken”. The goal of the audit is not only to get down to the bottom of the accident and its causes, but also to “put in place measures to ensure that something like it never occurs again”.
Alrosa President Sergey Ivanov said: “We are interested in the most objective and highly professional independent assessment of what happened. At the same time, we know that there are no analogous mines with similar hydrogeological conditions in our country. We are counting on assessment by independent international experts who have experience in mine planning and production for deposits with similar adverse hydrological conditions”.
