The Trepça mine in Mitrovica

01/07

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Once counting up to 23,000 employees, Trepça was once one of the biggest companies in socialist Yugoslavia. In the 1930s, a British company gained the rights to exploit the Stari Trg mine. Nowadays, only some 1500 employees work at the mine.

02/07

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The dressing room of the minners the last investments where made in the late 40's.

03/07

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Around 100 new minners have been recruited and added to the workgroups.

04/07

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The old technology is causing major process blocks for days the maintainance of the wagons and machines is becoming a costly process says minner B.Bahtiri.

05/07

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One of the Trepça mine engineers pictured sat at a table. The mine now has just 1500 employees compared to the 23,000 that once worked here.

06/07

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After deciding to visit the mine i saw the overaged staff, the old technology and the lack of tools in the mine .

07/07

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Nowadays the trepça mine has only a small number of employees when compared to the golden times. Around 1500 employees who work for their own salaries, and withe 1\3 being miners and the rest administrative employees .

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Fitim Selimi

Mitrovica, Kosovo, Europe

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