Baljevac on the Ibar - After last year's delay in the delivery of coal thermal power plant "Nikola Tesla" and "Morava" in Svilajnac and damage due to the ignition of accumulated coal miners' strike and announced, shipment of coal from the mine Ibarskih to these consumers now going well. Thus, after the last intervention Aleksandra Antic, Minister of Energy, this year the aforementioned thermal power plants will be delivered approximately 170,000 tons.
These amounts, both in the administration Ibarskih mine found out, it will be quite sufficient for the viability of the plate and about 500 employees, of which about 400 of them work in the pits.There will not be problems in the coming years, although a slight decrease in planned excavation and delivery of coal.
However, in the mines, but also throughout the end Raanska concern is that after nearly a century of digging coal reserves coming to an end and that after 2024 planned to begin the process of bringing the mine in Baljevac and nearby Usce on the Ibar.
Therefore, the more frequent requests baljevakih miners that after years of research and proved reserves in this area of about 7.5 million tons in the world in high demand boron ore starts with serious exploitation. Until now it was some kind of trial digging and delivery of an Indian purchaser of about three thousand tons per year.
To Baljevcu of mining in the ore pine lived with a much more extensive exploitation, and before that the solution of the future relationship with the Canadian company "Erin Venders", ie. their daughter company in Serbia "Balkan gold", which has so far carried out extensive and costly research papers. Identified reserves of ore of about 7.5 million tons, announced the start of serious exploitation, which requires an investment of about 70 million euros, as well as the dismissal of future business relations between Ibarskih mine and mentioned the Canadian company. This would, according to the Ibarske mines, should be as soon as the state of topics, and on the agenda of the Ministry.
And what is the importance of mining in Baljevac on the Ibar for this village in the valley of the Ibar by the data we receive from Miroljub Novkovia, union president Ibarskih mine:
- When there announce a competition for, say, one position in the pit signals at least five hundred, and there were even 1,200 candidates. It's not just the unemployed from the area of Baljevac, a small town of about two thousand inhabitants, but also of Raska and potkopaonikih villages. Here, we now have the problem of how to resolve the issue for 30 miners who point out the contracts for a certain time, but the ban is still in force employment. There are problems, though not the word of officials but of young people who want to work no matter what the job is difficult and cave - said Novkovic.
In previous years there was so much interest in the mining of nine bread crust. The management of the mine has often been forced to recruit new and convincing workers to accept mining occupations. But the destruction of numerous factories in the area Raanska municipalities has contributed to a job with the coal pit digger accelerated retirement and earnings of about 60,000 dinars a month is quite alluring.