{"id":10872,"date":"2023-10-30T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/blast-kills-dozens-of-coal-miners-in-kazakhstan\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T13:57:59","slug":"blast-kills-dozens-of-coal-miners-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/blast-kills-dozens-of-coal-miners-in-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast kills dozens of coal miners in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      At least 45 coal miners were killed in a fire sparked by a methane gas explosion at a mine in Kazakhstan, authorities in the country said on Sunday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In a statement, the Ministry for Emergency Situations said the blast sparked a blaze early on Saturday at the Kostenko mine in the Karaganda region, state-owned\u00a0Kazinform news agency reported.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      More than 200 people were evacuated from the mine to safety and search efforts are ongoing for one missing miner, the ministry said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The mine is owned by Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, the world\u2019s largest producer of steel, and run by its local representative ArcelorMittal Temirtau, which operates multiple coal and iron ore mines across Kazakhstan.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Operations at the firm\u2019s eight mines in the Karaganda region have been suspended and a criminal investigation has been opened by the General\u00a0Prosecutor\u2019s Office, the\u00a0ministry said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In a statement following the blast, ArcelorMittal said it had recently signed a preliminary agreement with the Kazakh government to transfer ownership of ArcelorMittal Temirtau to Kazakhstan and was \u201ccommitted to completing this transaction as soon as possible.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cBoth parties are very much focused on an outcome that is in the best interests of the people who work at the steel plant and iron-ore and coal mines, as well as the communities the operations support,\u201d the statement said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      On Sunday, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declared a national day of mourning for those killed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The multi-billion dollar mining sector accounted for an estimated 17% of GDP in mineral-rich Kazakhstan in 2021, according to the US International Trade Administration.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 45 coal miners were killed in a fire sparked by a methane gas explosion at a mine in Kazakhstan, authorities in the country said on Sunday. In a statement, the Ministry for Emergency Situations said the blast sparked a blaze early on Saturday at the Kostenko mine in the Karaganda region, state-owned\u00a0Kazinform news <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}