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Russia is not interested in Armenian uranium any more. The decision about the liquidation of “Armenian-Russian Mining Company” was made during the session in the RA Government on July 16. The justification shows that the company engaged in geological and exploration works and it completed its task. As a result it was found out that there are not sufficient uranium reserves on the territory of Armenia.
Reminder: the “Armenian-Russian Mining Company” was established in 2008 by the direct participation of the RA Government and the Russian State Corporation “Rosatom” with equity participation of 50:50. Sergey Kirienko, Chairman of “Rosatom” announced about the perspective of uranium development in Armenia assessing about 100 thousand tons of uranium reserves.
Russia invested 3 million dollars in the initial stage of the work. The company had a license of exploration until 2015. The works continued from 2010 until 2011 in Syunik region on the area of Lernadzor village. After numerous protest actions, as well as fire-raising by unknown persons the company ceased its operation.
According to independent experts who had access to the closed documents, the uranium reserves were assessed long ago, and the maps were formed still in the Soviet times by the members of the so-called “Gromov” and “Koltsov” expeditions.
July 18, 2015 at 18:30