In a meeting held by Alrosa in Mirny, attended by the company’s managers and employees, President of the Russian miner Sergey Ivanov said that the reconstruction of the now closed Mir mine will take “not less than 7 years”, according to Rough & Polished.
Ivanov explained: “We want to take all the possible risks in consideration. As soon as we find a project, which will guarantee 100-percent safety for all who will go underground, we will immediately start the construction. The company can afford not to make haste”. He added that out of the 1,100 people once employed in the mine, “two thirds have already been employed” elsewhere.
The official investigation into the fatal accident on the Mir diamond mine on August 4, 2017, which cost the lives of eight miners, came to a close on November 10. The commission appointed to investigate the accident came to the conclusion that the accident was caused by “a set of hydrogeological, technical and organizational factors. One of the main reasons was the anomalous hydrogeological complexity of the deposit due to a system of unfavorably underlying cracks in the structural fracture”. No single factor caused the accident, and the conditions that led to the accident “did not happen abruptly”, but took several years to develop.
