Safety at Kazakhstan’s mines is back in the spotlight after 2008 opened with a disaster that claimed 30 lives – the second large-scale fatal mine explosion within 18 months...ArcelorMittal has pledged to pay out some $7 million for the tragedy, with families of the deceased receiving 10 years’ salary plus one-off payments for education and housing, as well as assistance in repaying bank loans... With the...mine disaster once more putting foreign investors in the spotlight, the government may well use the opportunity to make more demands on them.