An explosion at the Udachny diamond mine occurred after a methane release, the press service of the General Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for Yakutia reported on November 27.
The explosion injured five people, three of whom died.
Rescue teams of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations are eliminating the consequences of the explosion. The dead and wounded were brought to the surface. 248 miners were evacuated from the mine.
In total, 49 people and 10 teams were involved in eliminating the consequences, including 35 people and seven teams from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.
An investigation team is working at the scene of the incident.
Recall that the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe is a diamond deposit in northern Yakutia. Located 20 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field.
The pipeline was discovered in June 1955 by geologist V. Shchukin. For industrial diamond extraction, the town of Udachny and a mining and processing plant were built nearby.
Udachnaya consists of two adjacent highly diamond-bearing pipelines: the eastern and the western.
The Udachnaya pipeline is the largest diamond deposit in Russia in terms of raw material volume and deposit size. Many large stones were quarried there, including crystals now found in the Diamond Fund.
The pipe has been extracted by open pit mining since 1982; In June 2014, an underground mine was opened at the deposit.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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