With an amount of 13,630,605 pesos, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) announced that it will begin restructuring and construction works in exterior areas of the mine in larimarlocated in the municipality of Bahoruco, in the province of Barahona, to improve the working conditions of miners in this area.
The infrastructure project is part of the first phase of intervention of the mine and with it seeks to have greater control of access to the deposit in order to reduce risks during mining operations.
The director of Technical Management of the MEM, José Mauricio Hernández, explained during an activity to present the project that the contractor, in this case the company Constructora EISA, will also have to carry out work safety infrastructures.
The works to be carried out by the contractor include the restructuring of a ship that will become a military detachment and a technical office that will function permanently to accompany them in their operations through the General Directorate of Miningan institution attached to the MEM.
Hernández said that a security checkpoint with an access gate will be built to register the entrances and exits to the mining area, as well as two kitchen areas with dining rooms and bathrooms with dressing rooms to improve the quality of the miners’ work.
While the CEO of MiningRolando Muñoz, expressed that it is an initiative of President Luis Abinader, accepted by Minister Antonio Almonte, to rehabilitate the mine of larimar so that the workers of this “semi-precious stone” have better life opportunities and can carry out their work with due safety.
“The use of larimar It must be related to the improvement of the conditions of the miners. They, who with their industriousness have made the larimar the Dominican national stone,” he said.
In a press release, the ministry indicated that dozens of miners expressed their satisfaction at the beginning of the works that will give greater security to the workers of the extraction of the larimar and they will attract investors to financially support this activity.
