ArmInfo. The company Lydian Armenia refutes the information distributed by the organization "Armenian Ecological Front" about the Amulsar project. According to the press service of Lydian Armenia, the information says that video materials about a building explosion on the territory of the heap leaching site at the Amulsar deposit have allegedly been found, and the dust from the explosion allegedly reaches the communities adjacent to the deposit and the city of Jermuk.
In the message of the company: "Firstly, it is laughable that the video was presented as a news, as before the company already represented on its official channel Youtube a similar video. Secondly, when it is said that the dust from the explosion reached Jermuk, then, unlike the statements of some activists, our statements are based on scientific monitoring data, the results of which are available on the company's website. " The official message of the company also says that in the video you can see that the dust settles exclusively in the area where the explosion itself occurs within a radius of several hundred meters. "Even with a vivid imagination, dust can not reach Jermuk." According to the monitoring results, all parameters of the Gndevaz community, located 1.4 km away, are normal. It is noted that industrial explosions at the field will occur on the territory of open quarries, at a distance of several kilometers from populated areas.
At the same time, Lydian Armenia expresses its surprise that in the last couple of years the Armenian Environmental Front has paid attention exclusively to its activities, completely ignoring video materials about industrial explosions at other fields near the cities. To recall, Lydian Armenia is a subsidiary of British Lydian International, whose shareholders are also large international institutional investors from the United States, Great Britain, a number of European countries, including EBRD. The Amulsar project is the largest industrial project in Armenia for the development of the Amulsar gold deposit at a total cost of $ 370 million. In August 2016, a project for the construction and development of the field was launched. Preparatory work has been carried out since 2006. The life of the Amulsar deposit will be 10 years and 4 months, an annual average of 200,000 ounces of gold (about 10 million tons of ore) is planned. The company's shares are quoted on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Amulsar deposit is the second largest in Armenia.