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Perspective Development of Iron Ore Mining in Ukraine
by Serhiy Storchak

According to the world experts, the demand for and prices on iron ore will be increasing annually. It is connected with the iron ore shortage at the world market, which, according to the prognosis of the experts in the field, will have been done away with by 2007-2008. But before that time the resources will be in short supply. Immediately after the increase in the world prices, Ukraine is expected to increase prices and the year 2004 clearly proved this. To what extent will the market processes affect our country, which holds one of the leading positions in the world as for the quality of iron ore? Will our iron ore mining industry be able to meet the increasing demands of the metallurgical industry?

The Implementation of the Joint American-Ukrainian Project is going to be introduced at the Mines of Ukraine

On the 31-th of March 2004 the Head of the State Committee on Supervision of Labour Safety Sergey Storchak held a conference on an implementing of the joint American-Ukrainian project regarding a drilling of degassing horizontal holes.

The conference was concerning the letter of Understanding between the Department of Labour of the United States of America and the Head of the State Committee on Supervision of Labour Safety (SCSLS) and the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine (MF&E) regarding a Technical Assistance project to improve mine safety.

The State of the Industrial Safety and Labour Protection in Ukraine and the Main Priorities of the State Supervising Bodies’ Activity.

The State Committee on Supervision of Labour Safety was created on the base of the State Committee on Mine-Technical Supervision with essential changes of the previous ideology on 27 January, 1993.

Using the experience of the State Committee on Mine-Technical Supervision and key states of Europe and America we established the system of the state supervision of safe realization of works based on the foundations of industrial safety. In other words it is the protection of a person and society from negative consequences of industrial process meet answers to current priorities of our activity.

The USA Mine Experts Impart Knowledge to the Miners in Lugansk District

The delegation of the US mine experts visited Lugansk district not the first time. Their visit concerned with the evaluation the conditions of the realization the project aimed at the improvement ventilation systems at mines in Lugansk and Donetsk districts.

On the 20-21 of January 2004 the group, charged by the representatives from the Department of Labour of the USA, the research officers from the University of Kentucky, the officials from the Embassy of the United States of America in Ukraine, visited “Suhodolskaya-Vostochnaya” mine of the national enterprise “Krasnodonvugillya”.

The Safety in Coal mining industry is the Strategy of the State Policy

Since the coal became the strategic resource of the industrial development, the safety of coal miners at work places became the strategy of the state policy. The deeper the coal miners had to work, the more significant the problem of safety became. Because in case of the accidents (the methane explosion and fires), the cost of the coal mines’ renovation appears to be very high.

The Delegation of the United States has visited the Mines in Lugansk

The Delegation visited the mines of Lugansk region in order to make conclusions of the project “Miniduster” that was mainly aimed at the installation of the rock dusters. The holding company ”Krasnodonvugillya” was one of those involved in the project. The mines of the above-mentioned holding are considered to be one of the most dangerous regarding the accidents of the coal dust explosions.

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS TO MARK WORLD DAY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK

Tens of thousands of workers and employers from Lima to London and Bangkok to Brazil will mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April, drawing attention to work-related accidents and illnesses that annually take some 2 million lives and cost the global economy an estimated US$1.25 thousand billion ($1.25 trillion), according to the International Labour Office (ILO).

The Cooperation between Ukraine and the United States of America is continuing

On the 18-th of April 2003 the chairman of the Donetzk territorial department of the State Committee of Safety and Health at Work of Ukraine Nikolai Maleev met with the delegation from the USA. The independent expert of the Ministry of Labour Art Sullivan and the representative of the US Embassy in Ukraine Jacquelin McKisson charged the delegation.

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