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    Despite protests of environmentalists, Mego Gold Company gets
    permission to launch construction of third Tukhmanuk tailing dump

    by Karina Manukyan

    Tuesday, September 2, 16:44

    Despite protests of environmentalists, Mego Gold Company gets a
    permission to launch the third Tukhmanuk tailing dump.
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    Environmentalist Greta Gabrielyan told reporters, Tuesday, the Nature
    Protection Ministry of Armenia approved the Tukhmanuk tailing dump
    project's Environment Impact Assessment on 30 June. Meanwhile, in the
    following 1.5 month, environmentalists could not get official
    information on whether the project would be approved or not. In fact,
    they learned about the project's approval on 23 August from the
    website of Global Gold Mining.

    "We deal with a unique situation when the project is approved amid
    heated protests of the residents of the Melik community, where the
    tailing dump will be built," says lawyer Arthur Grigoryan. According
    to him, the villagers have already sent a letter to the minister and
    asked him to visit Melik community to get first- hand view of the
    situation. The villages alarm that the two old tailing dumps were not
    recultivated, which may cause risks of soil pollution.

    The project caused displeasure both of ecologists and local residents.
    In particular, "Mega gold" company did not implement recultivation
    work at the two tailing dumps of Tukhmanuk, which contains the risk of
    heavy metals penetration in soil.

    Last year ecologists called on Armenian Prosecutor General's Office to
    revise the license on open pit mining of Tukhmanuk. Mego Gold Company
    (subsidiary of GGM) was to submit a new project after two years of
    open pit mining and start close pit mining. However, environmentalists
    say the company managed to somehow extend the license for open pit
    mining.


    http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectidÖ6D33E0-329E-11E4-AEA60EB7C0D21663




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