25 October 2016 01:56 pm
The workers said plans are underway to privatize the mine, the Lanka Mineral Sands Limited and the Paranthan Chemicals in guise of restructuring the three institutions.
They said the graphite mine was making profits unlike the other two institutions and therefore, there was no need to privatize it.
Miners claimed that about 45 percent of the Graphite Mine shares had already been acquired by an Australian mining company. (Pushpakumara Jayaratne)