Mirny Diamond Mine

RESCUE EFFORTS AT ALROSA’S MIR MINE CONTINUE

Rescue teams working round-the-clock shifts are sparing no effort to clear rubble in Alrosa’s Mir diamond mine in Yakutia, Siberia, where eight miners went missing after an underground pit flooded last week.

 

Rescue teams have been continuously clearing debris at the site since the shaft was flooded. So far, the total volume of extracted rock mass has exceeded 1,800 cubic meters a day, the Rough&Polished analysis website reported.

 

Special pumps installed at the site are evacuating 1,250 cubic meters of water per hour, in order to ensure safe rescue operations.

 

Water continues to flood the mine at a rate of over 1,000 cubic meters per hour, but according to the report, there is no water in the quarry above the compromised mine, nor is there gas concentration exceeding the permissible limit.

 

Alrosa has made a team of psychologists available to the families of the missing miners and rescue teams.

 

 

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