Very “Responsible Mining” by “Cronimet”

Pan-Armenian Environmental Front

The Pan-Armenian Environmental Front (PEF) civic initiative’s video shooting  in the area of Artsvanik tailing dump owned by ZCMC showed once again that the wastewater from the tailing dump continues flowing into the Norashenik and Artsvanik Rivers and then get mixed with the Voghji River. As a matter of fact, the rivers serve as waste carriers for many years, while governmental bodies in charge seem not to exist. You can watch “Artsvanik Tailing Dump Wastewater Continue Flowing into Rivers” video for more details.

A question arises: whether the administration of “Cronimet” Company and ZCMC General Manager Nil Stivenson will ever be allowed such irresponsible attitude towards environment and water resources in their own countries and what kind of measures governmental bodies in these countries will take towards such companies.

Zangezour coppr and molybdenum combine annually takes from the Voghji river basin around 70 million cum water of excellent (I) and good (II) quality, while after ore processing it gives back in the form of Artsvanik tailing dump wastewater, non-satisfactory (IV) and bad (Y) quality.

September 29, 2015 at 17:48