• Armenia: before the goldrush | openDemocracy

    Jan 31, 2017 · Construction began last year (the groundbreaking ceremony took place in August) and the Amulsar Mine will begin operating in 2018. Each year, 10m tonnes of ore, containing tonnes of gold would ...

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  • Amulsar: Letter to the Board of Directors of the World Bank COO .

     · In April 2014 and July 2014, residents of Gndevaz and Jermuk communities together with several environmental NGOs in Armenia submitted two complaints to CAO with regard to IFC's investment in Lydian International Limited, a mining company sponsoring the exploration and planning exploitation of the Amulsar gold mining project.

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  • external IFC Investment in Gold Mining in Amulsar Armenia

    supporting its Amulsar gold mining project. Implementation of the Amulsar project of the country. Mining in Amulsar, Armenia 4 2017, to the Board of Directors of the World Incc Corporation. We value your views on the al part of our environmental and social impact lg sector in Armenia, with the aim of boosting

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  • Armenia signals readiness to restart controversial mine project

    Jun 29, 2022 · After years of indecision, Armenia appears to be preparing the way to resume development of the controversial Amulsar gold mine project. On June 18, new amendments in the country's mining code went into force. Among other things, they allow companies to carry out mining with environmental impact assessments more than a year old, as long as ...

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  • Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd says minimal impact on Armenia mine .

     · Chaarat Gold says minimal impact on Armenia mine from NagornoKarabakh conflict NagornoKarabakh is about 150 kilometres away from its Kapan operations, the mining company said Kapan processing ...

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  • Greens Say Armenia's Prized Lake Threatened by Mining

    Dec 02, 2011 · Environmental activists in Armenia are continuing their yearlong campaign against a goldprocessing plant which they believe will pose serious risks to a unique lake that provides much of the country's drinking water. The concerns centre on an orecrushing plant completed this year at the Sotk gold mine, owned by the GeoProMining company.

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  • US mining firm sues Armenian government |

    Mining Firm Sues Armenian Government. By Emil Danielyan and Astghik Bedevian. 20 March 2007. A company mining gold in Armenia has initiated an international arbitration of its bitter dispute with Environment Minister Vartan Ayvazian whom it accuses of corruption and other violations of the law.

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  • CHAARAT GOLD: WORKER DIES OF INJURIES AT KAPAN MINE | Mining .

    Sep 06, 2022 · Chaarat Gold has shut down part of its Kapan mining operation in Armenia for an internal investigation following the death of an employee from injuries sustained in an incident on Sept company is working with the authorities to facilitate their investigation. Details of the incident have not been says mining continued in other areas of the mine .

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  • Activists Hope to Put End to Amulsar Gold Mine

     · Amulsar is a mountain in southern Armenia which is the source of two major rivers. It is also the source of a network of dams and tunnels designed to feed Lake Sevan, the largest freshwater source in Armenia. A British mining firm, Lydian International Limited, discovered gold in Amulsar in 2006 and has been trying construct a mine there since ...

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  • Armenia Gold Reserves 2022 Data

    Gold Reserves in Armenia remained unchanged at 0 Tonnes in the second quarter of 2022 from 0 Tonnes in the first quarter of 2022. Gold Reserves in Armenia averaged Tonnes from 2000 until 2022, reaching an all time high of Tonnes in the third quarter of 2001 and a record low of 0 Tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2003. This page provides Armenia Gold Reserves .

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  • Global Gold Corporation Gold Mining, Development, Exploration Armenia .

    June 26, 2014 AAA Final Award in Favor of Global Gold Corporation Against Amarant Mining and Alluvia Mining for 16,868, USD plus USD, with postaward interest on unpaid amounts accruing at 9% and injunctive relief (pdf document) April 22, 2013 Federal Court Rules in Favor of Global Gold Against Caldera Resources, Confirming ...

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  • Armenia: before the goldrush | openDemocracy

     · A British mining company has struck gold in southern Armenia. What's in it for the locals? Updated 3 February with reply. Русский

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  • Unraveling the Offshore Web: BritishGeorgian Investors and .

    Oct 04, 2021 · British investments are coming to Armenia. In October 2012, British investors announced in a statement published in Haykakan Zhamanak that they were going to launch two projects in early 2013: the Bazum iron mine in Armenia's Province Lori region and the Azatek goldpolymetallic mine in Vayots Dzor. According to the announcement, up to US400 million .

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  • Lydian to start mining gold in Armenia's Amulsar project in Q3

     · Gold production is set to commence in the third quarter of 2018 at the Amulsar gold mine in southcentral Armenia, said Lydian International Ltd, the Canadian mining group ...

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  • Armenia: Russian mining takeover bears hallmarks of old regime

    Sep 30, 2021 · Last December, the Economic Journalists Club of Armenia reported that Lydian Armenia was planning to sell the rights to exploit the Amulsar gold mine to an unnamed Russian company. "The state will receive 20 percent of the stake from this deal, which, in all likelihood, will be managed by the Armenian National Interests Fund," said the ...

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  • Operations in Getik Armenia

    Getik, a promising gold exploration property in Armenia, was acquired by Global Gold in 2006 and 2007. The exploration license area is approximately 27 square kilometers, and the property is loed in northeastern Armenia in the Geghargunik region.

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  • Description of the Mining Sector of Armenia

    The metalmining industry in Armenia has a long history, dating back to the lateeighteenth century, when copper mining began in Alaverdi, Lori marz (province). Copper was also discovered in Kapan in Syunik marz, where mining began in the midnineteenth century, and these two marzes continue to be the main focus of the metalmining industry to ...

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