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“Amulsar project should be the best among the world’s environmental projects, i.e. top hi technologies should be used, and environmental measures should be the best, while emissions and damage caused to environment should be minimum,” said Nature Protection Minister Aram Harutyunyan at his final press conference for 2013. He noted that the Ministry had received around 200-300 letters with remarks and calculations connected with Amulsar.
Amulsar open gold pit mining project doesn’t include a number of in the project affected communities, which caused tense situation in the community threatening to become a conflict. In regard with Amulsar gold mine, Jermuk residents intend to apply to the European Court for Human Rights. Under Aram Harutyunyan, “We had 2-3 discussions concerning Amuslar project, where Jermuk Town was involved in the discussions and hearing with my assignment and due to our correspondence with Jermuk Town. I phoned them and told them to come, participate and table their proposals. I propose and assign to hold hearings at the ministry not to have any kind of restrictions,” Minister Harutyunyan said.
Reminder: Lydian International Company intends to mine Amulsar gold mine in opencast way, where one ton of ore contains 0.9 grams of gold using heap leach technologies. It’s already the third time that the company changes the location of the cyanic facility, as the previous one posed essential threats to water resources, first of all, Lake Sevan, the strategic priority of Armenia.
The company plans to accomplish the process of licensing in the fourth quarter of 2013 and plans to finalize the ESIA (environmental and social impact assessment) in the second quarter of 2014.
January 09, 2014 at 10:39