The project of construction of objects for waste of mining branch of manufacture is approved

ArmInfo. Armenian Government during the session on August 10 adopted construction project of objects for waste of mining branch of manufacture industry, installing indexes of these objects. 

Commenting the given decision, Shushanik Keropyan, Head of the Department of Standards and Analytics of Agency for Mineral Resources of Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources of Armenia, noted that this draft decision will also affect tailing dumps. It is a question of when designing and building such facilities would take into account the impact on the environment in accordance with the norms established by the legislation of the country. In addition, when building facilities for waste products of the mining industry, investors will now have to take into account the potential of landslide risks. At the construction stage, it is also necessary to take into account both waste in tailing dumps and the possibility of further exploitation of this territory. Shushanik Keropyan said that the builders in the construction of hazardous waste facilities are obliged to exclude the possibility of water pollution.