ISFARA, May 5, Asia-Plus — For the first time since collapse of the Soviet Union, joint stock company (JSC) Angisht (coal mine at the northern town of Shurob, Sughd’s Isfara district) has received new equipment.
Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, the Angisht director general Hakimkhon Mahmoudov said that they had received scraper chain, spare parts and other necessary equipment totaling more than 3 million Russian rubles from Russia’s open joint-stock company (OJSC) Anzher Machinery Plant.
According to him, an agreement on delivery of that equipment was reached last November. Installation work is under way, Mahmoudov said, noting that Shurob miners have extracted more than 9,000 tons of coal since the beginning of this year, which is 1,832 tons more than in the same period of last year.
The new equipment will allow increasing the volume of extraction of coal to 23,000 tons per year, the Angisht top manager said.
349 people currently work with the Shurob coal mine at an average monthly wage of 251 somonis.
