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At last the Armenian Government adopted a resolution to introduce “tailing dump” and “soil management wastes” concept into the code on subsoil. So far tailing dumps were considered man-made mines, but now the tailing dump is differentiated from man-made mine: the description of tailing dump concept is given separately.
The concepts will have a legal force, when the National Assembly adopts the legislative package submitted by the Armenian Government, which was approved by the executive on 14 May.
It should be mentioned, if this package is approved, “Investment Program for Processing Industrial Dumps Accumulated and Accumulating Because of Activities of “Zangezour Copper and Molybdenum Combine” CJSC and accumulated and accumulating in Voghji, Pkhroun and Artsvanik tailing dumps” implemented by “Alyotig” LLC, which has recently been submitted for the approval of the National Assembly, shall be amended.
The problem is the bill plans to process industrial wastes of the tailing dumps, while after the amendments to the Code on Subsoil the content of the tailing dumps will be called not tails, but soil management wastes.
May 15, 2015 at 14:26