Temirtau

[tey-meer-tou, tyi-myir-tah-oo]

noun

1. a city in E central Kazakhstan, NW of Karaganda.

Example Sentences

On Saturday, operator ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the local unit of Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal, said 206 of 252 people at the Kostenko mine had been evacuated after what appeared to be a methane blast.

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It is the latest in a string of workplace deaths at sites operated by ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the local unit of ArcelorMittal that operates the country’s largest steel plants and several coal and ore mines.

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Following the latest fire, Kazakhstan announced the nationalization of ArcelorMittal Temirtau.

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In a statement, ArcelorMittal Temirtau said that work had been halted at all of its coal mining sites in Kazakhstan.

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The Kazakh city of Temirtau - the company’s namesake and home of its steel plant - made global headlines in 2018 after being blanketed in black snow, a phenomenon that the company attributed to a lack of wind.

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