Mining

Hiking - Marching to Amulsar on April 28: AEF

Ore mining and dressing are accompanied with different toxic chemicals and heavy metals with the pollution of working and natural environment, which adversely impact the environment. All this disturbs the preservation of the people's health, particularly risks related with environment and population health

In 2020 society will learn the names of real owners of the metallic mines in Armenia. The executive has approved “Action Plan Needed To Reveal Real Owners of Metallic Mining Companies in Armenia”, which has been developed in the frames of introducing the EITI

He mentioned that the Expert Assessment Center should have noted the risks in its opinion, which were described in the EIA, for example, that heavy metals will affect water resources, there is a probable impact on Lake Sevan, biodiversity will reduce and heavy metals may penetrate into food chain because of acidic drainage

Akhtala area residents from Lori Region are beating an alarm signal that the volume of the production of agricultural products has fallen down drastically over the recent years

'Tashir Capital' CJSC owned by a businessman of Armenian origin Samvel Karapetyan will search for oil and gas in 7 regions of Armenia and Yerevan capital city. 'Armenian Petroleum and Gas Company' owned by 'Tashir Capital' has received

"Lydian International" Company as represented by its subsidiary "Lydian Armenia" is developing the infrastructures for the development of Amulsar gold-polymetallic mine. The project-impact communities are Jermuk Resort Town and Gndevaz Village in Vayots Dzor Region and Gorayk Community in Syunik Region

The problem is how long the resources of Artsvanik Tailing dump will be sufficient for the expanded production of 22 million tons of ore annually, which is carried out by

In his interview with EcoLur Project Coordinator Armen Valesyan denied information mentioning the project doesn’t have a finalized list and Ardvi is still considered to be a target village

Plaintiff “EcoRight” NGO is demanding from court to annul the positive opinion issued by

An accident occurred on 19 March at Qajaran Copper and Molybdenum Combine, Syunik Region, as news.am website informs. During construction

The following actions have been carried out to restitute the rights of the residents

Since 2014 “Teghout” CJSC (“ACT”) has been developing Teghout copper and molybdenum mine in an opencast manner in Lori Region and 357 ha of forest has been allocated for this project. Shnogh and Teghout villagers have been deprived of forest goods and

“Polymetal Armenia”, a member of Russian “Polymetal” Group has disseminated a statement, which says it stops its geological prospecting works in Lori and Tavush, ““Polymetal Armenia” LLC informs that it stops

The following actions have been carried out to restitute the rights of the residents:

Documents made available on the website of Danish parliament on March 2, 2018 inform that the representative of the leftist “Red-Green Alliance” party (Enhedslisten) Christian Juhl raised the issue of Teghut mine with the Minister of Industry, Business and Economic Affairs at the Danish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. The questions raised were as follows:

Thus, the pressure of mining on Areviq National Park is increasing

Teghout Mine Problems Should Be On MPs Agenda