To build of our stone

There is a picturesque shore of the Dniester near Grigoriopol. A limestone rock ridge stretches along the river for a dozen kilometers. Here is in 1946, a quarry for the extraction of wall stone was discovered. It was extremely necessary for the builders to restore the cities and villages destroyed during the war. A few years later, the development of the stone moved underground, forming the first in Pridnestrovie head shaft. By 1990, the company employed more than three hundred people. The design capacity of the mine was calculated for 85 thousand cubic meters of building stone per year. That time, it was mined enough to provide construction sites throughout the south of Moldova.

Today the Grigoriopol mine is a state unitary enterprise. According to the director Vyacheslav Koika, there are two of eight operating mines on extraction of saw limestone remained in republic. The Grigoriopol mine is deeper and longer than many similar deposits, including those located in neighboring Moldova. Up to working faces there are more than three kilometers along the underground labyrinth. This is the name of the place where stone carving machines work directly and extract stone. Up to the surface of the earth - 55 meters, in the galleries is kept a constant temperature - 16.5 ° C and increased, almost absolute, humidity.

The mine is provided with a complex engineering infrastructure. Electricity enters the galleries from the surface of the earth - through the wells above which the substations are located. Another indispensable attribute is a powerful ventilation system.

Currently, the enterprise employs 20 slaughter groups, and only 72 employees. For one shift, 50 cubic meters of wall stone are mined. The volume of production depends on the number of orders for products in many ways: in fact, the supply is equal to demand.

The situation was changed. In the spring this year, the Supreme Council adopted amendments to the current legislation. Their essence is to reduce the tax burden on the industry by almost 10 times. Such a measured step of the people's deputies brought the enterprise back to life.

Today, the Pridnestrovian stone once again became competitive on the market. It is slightly cheaper than in Moldova, in quality - meets all the necessary requirements.

The enterprise is optimistic about the future: there is a collective and a desire to work. The stone, mined under Grigoriopol, is an environmentally friendly, time-tested building material. What, how not to use it in the construction of houses for Pridnestrovians. This year, President Vadim Krasnoselsky indicated the need to build affordable housing. For their part, parliamentarians together with the government are working to create comfortable conditions for the development of the industrial sector, including mining enterprises.