Arutmin resumes Senakin mine production

South Kalimantan based coal-mining company PT. Arutmin Indonesia said Tuesday that production had resumed in its western part of Senakin mine as protesting ex-workers and local people who backed the protesters had left the mine.

?Production had resumed in West Senakin mine and we are already able to move stockpile to coal port,? said Sonny Pangestu, Arutmin spokesperson over the phone.

Last week Arutmin resumed production in East Senakin mine.

Senakin mine production had been disrupted for the last three weeks after Thiess Contractors ex-workers who were unsatisfied with their severance pay helped by local people blockaded the mine. Thiess Contractor, a subsidiary of Australian engineering and contracting giant Leighton Holdings, is Arutmin?s mining contractor.

Arutmin Indonesia, which is controlled by JSX listed PT. Bumi Resources, operates Satui and Senakin mine with combined output of about 30,000 tonnes per day. The company had been repeatedly hit by strikes, blockades and illegal mining activities that operate freely within its mining site with the back up of local government apparatus. (godang)