The miners were over 640 meters deep
Seven miners died following a collapse in a copper mine in downtown Kazakhstan, emergency services announced.
“The body of the seventh miner of the mine Kazakhmys was found,” the emergency services said this morning.
The miners were over 640 meters deep.
The mine belongs to the Kazakhmys group, quoted on the London bag, and opened in 2006.
On Monday night, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported “a collapse of rocky mass in the Jomart Mine, belonging to the company Kazakhmys, in the Oulytau region” in the center of Central Asia, rich in natural resources.
According to the preliminary data provided by the Kazakhmys group, the country’s largest copper producer, the collapse was caused by a “grisu explosion”, a gaseous mix of methane and air.
The country’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, sent condolences to the victims’ families.
Kazakhmys is the 20th largest mining copper company in the world, also working with silver in Kazakhstan, an ancient Soviet republic bordering Russia and China.
In November 2023, 46 miners died in the worst mining accident in the country’s history, in an ArcelorMittal group’s coal mine, which in the meantime abandoned Kazakhstan under pressure from the authorities.
