ArmInfo. 19 residents of Jermuk appealed to the court with a request to invalidate the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Amulsar project.
The Minister of the Environment Eric Grigoryan, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia, Lidian Armenia CJSC and the SNCO act as the defendant. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for September 30.
Lydian Armenia, which implements the construction of the field, is a subsidiary of British Lydian International. The total cost of the Amulsar project is $ 370 million. The field's life will be 10 years and 4 months, with an average of 200 thousand ounces of gold being mined annually. Amulsar field is the second largest reserves in Armenia. According to the company, the deposit contains about 73733 kg of gold with an average grade of 0.78 g per ton, and 294.367 tons of silver with an average grade of 9.29 g per ton. Earlier, ArmInfo, referring to the work of the famous Armenian scientist Petros Aloyan "Uranium bearing of geological formations in Armenia" noted that the Amulsar occurrence of uranium is located 4 km south- east of the village of Ketchut and 5 km north-west of the top of the mountain of the same name.
Approximately 76 tons of uranium were calculated for five sections of the Amulsar manifestation, and taking into account uranium in the thorium section, its total reserves can be estimated at 100 tons. Moreover, according to the studies of another scientist, Professor G. Avagyan, according to 40 samples of Amulsar ore, there are 195 tons of uranium and thorium there. Meanwhile, the development of uranium deposits requires special permission from the government, which Lidian does not have.