The company Lydian Armenia refutes the information of the "Armenian  Ecological Front"

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.