Too much debt and no investment in Trepca

It's the place Kosovo used to be kept from, but now the situation is extremely heavy.

With numerous debts, with irregular management and lack of mineral processing, the company “Trepca” seems to be slowly heading towards collapse.

The lock is one of those who spent most of his life here, until now the company has a thousand and 500 workers.

Gani Osmani, now 41 years old in service of the mine, is nostalgic to the time when gold and silver were processed from this mine, until today the goods of Kosovo are working on European states.

It's about 15 thousand tons of xhee until I get in a million a month, and we get our wages, but now it's a crisis due to the global energy crisis. The Trepca has never been worse with finance, has a lot of unpaid debts, and each month have been collecting debts. Job insurance is not paid. If it doesn't get in quick, Trepca couldn't get out. I went to Trepca collaps in 20 years after the war is bad. Before the war, the finalization in Zvecan is made because there is boiling, silver, and gold, these are the valuable minerals, and today that is not. Only becomes concentrations and countries from abroad come and buy and take to their smelter, miners work or other states win”, said Gani Osmani-Worker of “Trepca”, RTV Duggjini.

For the devastating state of Kosovo's almost greater wealth, all institutions in the country are announced, but their hand is very little present.

Currently, this company annually extracts up to 15 thousand tonnes of ore, much of which is sold as concentrations abroad.

The company's director, Behgjet Vinarci, is disappointed that so far all projects planned for Trepca are left on paper.

Because of lack of investment and in the last three years of poor management within the mine, and global impact has affected us from having a satisfactory product. 14 thousand to 15 thousand tons a month of extraction of fire from this mine. Now the possibilities are like this that we offer it as concentrations after we're unable to process it. Many meetings and plans and projects have been made, but not one of them has so far been realised “, said Behgjet Vinarci ʹ company manager “Trepca”.

To restore the glorious time of this wealth seems to have gone by for years.

“Trepca must have a reorganization of tools and equipment in order to have a higher level of production, then think of flotillas. To return the former reputation of this mine requires a time of”, Bahri Hyseni-head of the board “Trepca” said.

During Tuesday the workers of this company remained trapped in mines because of lack of electricity.

Just a day back at the company's offices was Deputy Minister of Industry, Undertaking and Trade Getoar Doctor, who was promised to reconsider the possibility of having a solution.