EcoLur
In order to mitigate flood of protests around Hrazdan Iron Mine the Armenian Representative of ‘Fortune Oil’ Company 'Fortune Resources' has disseminated a press release, which particularly says:
“... The company has an intention to develop the iron mines in Hrazdan and Abovyan, but at present it only deals with projecting and specifying mine reserves...
'Fortune Resources' Company intends to invest more than 110 million USD in the development of Hrazdan iron mine and projecting and constructing a gold recovery plant, as well as for mine preparation works, while the volume of investments for prospecting and mining the reserves in the neighboring territories in Abovyan will exceed 400 million USD…
We assure that works conducted by the company so far are not hazardous and won’t pose any hazard in future for the people’s health in neighboring and adjacent territories. We would like to inform that the ore was subjected to in-detailed examination and no uranium was detected…
The public concerns in regard with pollution of underground waters with heavy metals are not justified in any manner…’
November 16, 2011 at 11:33