Shakhta imeni Artema will continue to produce iron ore for "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih"
the Threat of mine closure in the mine to them. Artem from the first of December has passed a number of orders about this canceled the new head of the State service of Geology and subsoil of Ukraine Roman Opimakh, eliminating the conflict that has arisen under his predecessors. On Thursday, November 28, reported in a press-service "Mittal steel Krivoy Rog".
the company said that in October 2007, "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih" has received a special permit (license) for extraction of ore at the mine "Rudnik im. Of Kirov" (the mine them. Artema). It was issued on two plots of extraction of ore by underground method (to the horizon 1135 meters) and open (quarry "South").
In November 2014, production at the quarry was suspended due to high Stripping ratio and low profitability. In 2015-2016, the company has prepared a feasibility study on inexpediency of further recovery in the "South". In September 2017 Gosgeonedr excluded the rights to this plot at the "ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog" and two months later gave them to another company – "Rudomin", issuing her a license.
However, the history has received unexpected continuation. In 2018 Gosgeonedr the results of its investigation found that "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih" has committed three violations and demanded to eliminate them. Two of them the company has complied. Thus, the project was changed on opening and developing the horizon of 1135 meters, as well as the adjusted program of works in the mine (after exclusion of "southern" design capacity reduced from 2 to 1.5 million tons per year).
as for the third claim, Gosgeonedr pointed out that the company failed to comply with a set of measures for the conservation of land on the "South". Formally, this requires one of the clauses of the special conditions of the license (despite the fact that his career has long been legitimately worked for another company that got it all right).
The "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih" announced that the company has filed an appropriate statement, but why change was not made in full. As a result, in April 2019 Gosgeonedr ordered the suspension of a license, threatening the cessation of mining the mine, which employs almost 1000 people.
"All appeals of the enterprise for some reason, remain unanswered. Only with the advent of Novel Opimah appointed by the Cabinet on 6 November, the issue was resolved promptly and without delay", - told in the company.
a Week ago, on 22 November, the working group on the issues of subsoil use adopted the necessary decisions, and the new head Gosgeonedr canceled a number of threatening orders. Thus, the company was granted the right to continue mining in the mine and make the necessary changes in the license in full.
"I Want to believe that the new head Gosgeonedr in the framework of the legislation will conclude this protracted and controversial history," - summed up in "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih".