Em 10 de fevereiro de 2011, um desastre atingiu a mina de carvão da jazida Çöllolar, na região central da Turquia, perto da cidade de Elbistan. A parede nordeste da mina a céu aberto ruiu, despejando cerca de 50 milhões de toneladas de materiais na mina.
Os detritos soterraram e mataram 10 mineiros. O material retirado de Çöllolar é lignita, um tipo de carvão marrom geralmente mais novo e macio que o betuminoso ou antracita.
A Turquia depende da lignita para 21% de sua produção de eletricidade, e a bacia de lignita Afsin-Elbistan contém cerca de metade das reservas da Turquia.
O país tem a mais alta taxa de fatalidade entre mineiros de todo o mundo, com 133 mortes para cada 100.000 mineiros, conforme dados divulgados em 2011.
Em 19 de Junho, a mina da jazida Çöllolar ainda estava fechada, por causa de uma ação judicial.
On 10 February 2011, disaster struck the Çöllolar
coalfield in central Turkey, near the city of Elbistan.
The north-eastern wall of an open-pit mine collapsed, sending about 50m tonnes of material into the mine.
The debris buried and killed 10 workers. The material mined at the Çöllolar coalfield is lignite, a brown type of coal that is generally younger and softer than bituminous or anthracite.
Turkey relies on lignate for 21% of its electric power production, and the Afsin-Elbistan lignite basin contains about half of Turkey’s lignate reserves.
Turkey has the highest fatality rate for miners in the world, with 133 deaths for every 100,000 miners in Turkey, according to data released in 2011.
As of 19 June, the Çöllolar coalfield was still closed pending the outcome of a lawsuit.
The north-eastern wall of an open-pit mine collapsed, sending about 50m tonnes of material into the mine.
The debris buried and killed 10 workers. The material mined at the Çöllolar coalfield is lignite, a brown type of coal that is generally younger and softer than bituminous or anthracite.
Turkey relies on lignate for 21% of its electric power production, and the Afsin-Elbistan lignite basin contains about half of Turkey’s lignate reserves.
Turkey has the highest fatality rate for miners in the world, with 133 deaths for every 100,000 miners in Turkey, according to data released in 2011.
As of 19 June, the Çöllolar coalfield was still closed pending the outcome of a lawsuit.
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