On July 11, "Sagamar" CJSC will hold three public hearings in Stepanavan and in Pushkino settlement of Gyulagarak consolidated community in order to obtain permission to carry out geological exploration in Lori Region.
The first two are scheduled to be held in the meeting hall of Stepanavan municipality at 10:00 and 11:15, as we learn from the official website of the municipality. According to the press release posted on the page, the first hearings are related to geological exploration works planned in the administrative area of Urasar settlement. The text of the announcement of the second hearing has no information about the requested place of geological exploration works. There is no information about the requested area in the announcement of hearings scheduled at 12:30 in the administrative area of the third settlement - Pushkino.
Reminder: "Sagamar" CJSC owns the soil management rights of Armanis gold-polymetallic mine.
In 2021, Czech "Arnica" NGO dealing with chemical safety issues with the support of the Armenian NGOs - "Center for Community Cohesion and Support" NGO and "EcoLur" Informational NGO carried out studies in the lands and springs adjacent to Armanis mine and industrial waste dumps, which showed that these areas are contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, chromium, cadmium, lead, zinc, molybdenum, etc.
These same metals were also found in near-normal concentrations in biomaterials taken from Urasar and Armanis settlements in Stepanavan consolidated community, Lori Region, impacted by Armanis gold-multimetallic mine and industrial waste dumps.
July 10, 2022 at 19:58