The official investigation into the fatal accident on the Mir diamond mine on August 4, which cost the lives of eight miners, has come to a close.
According to Rough & Polished, Alexey Aleshin, Head of Russia’s Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) met with Sergey Ivanov, President of Alrosa, over the weekend to deliver the conclusions of the commission set up to investigate the incident.
The commission 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.
Finally, the commission “developed organizational and technical measures to localize and eliminate the causes of the accident and identified 16 officials responsible for the violations that led to its occurrence”.
