ABSTRACT
The management and employees of the company share the pain of loss and express deep condolences to the families and friends of the deceased. Assistance to the families of the victims will be provided in full. Real commemorations would take place later in less formal home settings. The brother-in-law of one of the miners, Maxim, came to talk to me, the foreign anthropologist, at an empty table, so as not to disturb the relatives. Still shocked, he told me how Maxim had been a wonderful person, a good worker, taking care of his family well. He added that the compensation for the death would be worth ten times Maxim’s annual salary. Numerous ethnographic examples show that money from mining is usually associated with the short-term cycle. Such money can cause illness and is best kept in circulation and not stored at home or in a bank account.
