Gold mining in Yakutia (54 photos)

An interesting excursion gold mine in Yakutia.



Technology gold

Last year, the value of land prepared a football field:

• land cleared of larches;



• draglines shot does not contain gold top layer of fertile land;
(Bucket)



• T-500 bulldozers leveled land of gold-bearing rocks;



• (not warmed rock-here forever merzlota- similar to concrete: consists of silt, sand and stones.)



progret- soil to a depth of 4 meters drilled boreholes and installed pipes, in which the hoses supplied hot steam;







• shifted water flow of the river and formed backwater;







• A section is filled with water to a depth of 2 meters,

• Moved to the area dredge.

Gold dredge clean. Draga (from the English. Drag - drag, to clean the bottom) - mechanized mining and processing unit operating on the principle Bucket Chain Excavator mounted on a floating platform.





Has multibucket working body for underwater development. Used to develop placers, extraction of valuable minerals (most often - gold, silver) and laying of slag heap.





Draga raises gold-breed, which is popularly called skalitom,







Lots, washed and screened it.













There do not appear large nuggets like nuggets Magadan and Chukotka.





at some sites the process of making gold ingots end



In these places, the gold mined in the mines. He had to work there







Season for miners lasts from late March until November. In April dredge chained ice.



Until June are preparatory and repairs. This year was reduced 5-drag one of the farm after a winter fire: sheathed boards and iron out, replace damaged electrical equipment, painted ...
(This repair you have the opportunity to look inside the dredge: the premises where the usual time finding is not possible for security reasons, to assess the extent of the power equipment, etc)













Artel regularly produces the wall newspaper, one of the issues which reflects the recovery process and participation of workers even control. Restored the entire team of!



Spring is here there are no lingering in June melts snow and ice on the rivers, and then begin to wash gold.

Employees

Backbone arteli- about 20 man-these are people who have worked for about 20 years. For them artel main place of work. In winter, they live in a nearby village, and usually every two years out in the employer-paid leave, including paid and travel expenses. Photos- below in the section competition.

Accepted and workers under an employment contract for the season. So Sergey signed it.



No restrictions on age, common in Russian cities: work all who want and can adapt to the rhythm of the mines.



In accordance with the law on guarantees of the rights of indigenous small peoples of the employer in selecting employees ceteris paribus preference for indigenous inhabitants.



Labor Day

Life is organized as a summer camp childhood Sergey! Food, 6ti day working week, 12ti hour working day with a lunch break. Besides tea breaks every 2 hours.



During this time, you can rest and keep warm temperature in April fell to -36 in November to -23 degrees. Continental climate!
Personal contribution to the common cause.

Welder constantly busy repairing. Here dismantled power transformer: it will take from the closed due to low profitability of deposits.



Competitions Drazhnikov.

Leadership is working to increase productivity and professional growth of employees. Held a traditional contest Drazhnikov the farm.













Here is the number of the newspaper with the results of the competition. Pay attention to the production, experience, energy intensity, duration of the working day, and so on!









Incidents

There have been several emergencies. Burning taiga. Here, major forest fires not extinguish.

Dredge sank: due to a malfunction of the alarm system of the water level in the body. Pumped water.



There was a fight between workers. Militsioner- them came only two on 250km- up a report.