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    PUBLIC HEARINGS ON ARMANIS MINE EXPANSION AND OPEN PIT MINING

    14:58 March 31, 2015

    Stepanavan Aarhus Center Coordinator Manya Meliqjanyan, Aarhus.am

    On 24 March public hearings were held in Armanis: the expansion of
    Armanis gold-polymetallic mine by 70 ha and open pit mining were on
    the agenda.

    Stepanavan Municipality Staff Head Rostom Qocharyan mentioned that the
    mine has been developed for around 10 years, nevertheless, Stepanavan
    hasn't received any dram as environmental free. Armanis mine not only
    harms development of tourism in Stepanavan, but also development of
    husbandry and agriculture.

    Stepanavan Aarhus Center Coordinator added that the company developing
    Armanis gold-polymetallic mine regularly pollutes Dzoraget, dumps
    toxic wastes in improper places, even in the yard of the school,
    where children play on these wastes. The villagers complained that
    each time they face the horror of the quake, when they feel the
    shaking. They insisted they need land for cultivation and keeping
    animals, thus they are not ready to provide any land areas for mining.

    Karine Movsisyan and Vram Tevosyan from "Environmental Impact
    Monitoring Center" SNCO of Nature Protection Ministry tried to calm
    down the villagers and urged that the distance of the mine from
    the village doesn't exceed sanitary standards. In reply to numerous
    questions, the experts assured that at this stage there is no need
    for EIA document.

    http://ecolur.org/en/news/mining/public-hearings-on-armanis-mine-expansion-and-open-pit-mining/7176/




    From: A. Papazian
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