Soma Mining Company

The mining company responsible for the operation of the disaster-struck mine in the Aegean coal capital of Soma, where 301 workers lost their lives in Turkey's worst mining accident last May, has obtained authorization to build a new plant in the northern province of Amasya, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

Operations at a mine in the disaster-struck town of Soma, owned by the same company that operated the mine where 301 workers were killed in Turkey’s largest mining disaster in May, were halted by a fire that broke out due to an increase in the gas level.