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Another Illegal Mining in Armenia: this time by a German company

Another Illegal Mining in Armenia: this time by a German company
The Armenian Environmental Front (AEF) civic initiative’s video shooting in the area of Artsvanik tailing dump owned by Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine Closed Joint Stock Company (ZCMC) showed once again that the wastewater from the tailing dump continues flowing into the Norashenik and Artsvanik Rivers and then gets mixed with…

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Time for Armenia to choose: Mining for Development or Systematic Plunder?

It is indisputable that different aspects of the mountaintop mining industry, especially the production and processing of useful metal mining, cause irrevocable damage to nature and human health, thus differing essentially from other types of human economic activity. However, the companies engaged in these activities have been insisting for a…

Amulsar: even “responsible” mining is destructive – Dr. Anahid Shirinian-Orlando

Amulsar: even “responsible” mining is destructive – Dr. Anahid Shirinian-Orlando
Lydian International Limited company, registered in an offshore zone, presented a document entitled "Amulsar Project, November 2014" to Armenians in the Diaspora. This document is superficial, misleading and incomplete. This is what thinks Anahit Shirinian-Orlando, an environmental scientist-engineer living in Los Angeles, who says No to mining at Amulsar. There…

Hidden Dangers of Lydian International’s Gold Mine: Cyanide

Hidden Dangers of Lydian International’s Gold Mine: Cyanide
People who are concerned with environmental issues in Armenia got convinced once again that the environmental inspection in our country does not serve its intended purpose, but it only automatically confirms the political decisions that have been made for realizing this or that program. Another evidence of this was the environmental impact…

They are now begging the Diaspora for money to exploit Amulsar mine

They are now begging the Diaspora for money to exploit Amulsar mine
Foreign companies with mining projects in Armenia are now reaching out to the Diaspora, organizing various meetings where they portray mining as a savior for Armenia’s economy and our people’s welfare. The heads of Lydian International, a company registered in the UK’s Channel Islands, and its Armenian affiliate Geoteam held…