Kolubara

LAZAREVAC - Special session marking the first year in office of the Serbian government was held at the Kolubara mining basin on Monday, and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stressed that the key words are responsibility and work.

All those who want to stay in the government must keep working constantly, the prime minister said at the session opening.

BELGRADE - There is a little over five million cubic meters of water left to be pumped out of the Tamnava - Zapadno Polje open coal mine pit, out of the 187 million cubic meters brought by the flooding in May last year, RB Kolubara Director Milorad Grcic said Friday.

Kolubara mines worker dies in accident

BELGRADE -- An accident in the Kolubara strip coal mine, southwest of Belgrade, on Thursday left a worker dead, the company, RB Kolubara, has announced.

The 45-year-old, B.A., died in the Tamnava-West Field mine where he was working on assembling machines.

BELGRADE - A fatal accident happened to a worker in the Kolubara mining basin's open pit mine Tamnava - Zapadno Polje when a beam carried by a machine fell on him and killed him Thursday morning, the Serbian Interior Ministry told Tanjug.

The accident occurred around 9 a.m. while the employee was performing his work.

Serbian FM meets with UNOPS director

BELGRADE -- Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met in Belgrade on Monday with Executive Director of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Grete Faremo.

He thanked her for the organization helping Serbia recover form the devastating floods in 2014.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met in Belgrade Monday with Executive Director of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Grete Faremo and thanked her for the organization helping Serbia recover form the devastating flooding that had hit it in 2014.

BELGRADE - Serbia will have enough coal from the Kolubara open pit mines this winter, and the coal mining process could be made more difficult by heavy snow and low temperatures, but it will not be jeopardized, Kolubara Director Milorad Grcic told Tanjug.

Coal production resumes in Tamnava West Field

LAZAREVAC -- Coal is being mined again in the Tamnava - West Field (Zapadno polje) strip mine, "the most significant open pit of the Kolubara mining basin," Tanjug reported.

This section of the mine was flooded in May.

KOLUBARA - Coal is being mined again in the Tamnava - Zapadno polje mine pit, the most significant open pit of the Kolubara mining basin which was inundated in the May flooding.

The production in the open pit was restarted in the presence of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who said that the Serbian energy system will be stable and that there will be no restrictions.

BELGRADE - The Battle of Kolubara, the biggest battle for Serbia in World War I, was fought on a front stretching over 200 kilometers from November 16 to December 15, 1914.