HISTORY

Historical Context of Sustainability - Gold in Armenia

Executive summary

Mining always exploited deposits more attractive (higher grade), which individually are non-renewable. However, the amount of reserves in parallel (and reservoir) increases, because with the price increases, resources become potential new reserves. The risks are rather on another level, the environmental management of several mining subsectors, and the resulting conflicts over land use and environmental pollution. If the benefits of mining are actually invested in the development of society, this activity can ensure a better quality of life with the use of geological resources. Gold mining and exploitation this resource has remain a major concern as it poses threats to the sustainability of projects. Armenia is a country which is rich in mineral resources among which gold reserves are also in abundance. Right from the rule of Soviet Union in the country to this date many projects have worked there to explore the reserves. Continuous exploration gives a way to sustainable projects for gold mining in the country. Sustainable development is a new paradigm to achieve. It is understood as a process that seeks the transformation of production to improve quality of life, making rational use of human, natural, physical, financial and cultural, without compromising the satisfaction of future generations, in a framework of social equity. These considerations make it clear that mining at present time not threatening future generation's satisfaction with mineral resources. From this point of view, mining can be considered as absolutely sustainable.

Key Words

Armenia, Gold Mining, Sustainability, Gold Mining in Armenia, sustainable development

Gold as a Natural Resource

Gold is widely distributed around the globe but in very small quantities so it is a rare item. The area of the earth's crust that has been exploited by man, (a surface crust on only 3 km radius of 6,370 km) contains at term, medium as RW Boyle, 0.005 ppm (parts per million). In addition there is gold in the water of the seas and their proportion varies depending on the place and studies going from 1 mg/m3 to 10 mg/m3 over that would seem little to some 10 billion tons of gold in all the world's oceans. Although gold was the first metal that attracted the attention of man to use yet simple character ornaments was not reached until the melt art was not invented in the Bronze Age. Anyway gold has a positive effect on the progress of civilization as the desire to possess has led man to exploit and colonize territories.

The development of trade relations and the influx of precious metals brought about an economic revolution whose political consequences appear gradually, with the advent of modern nations establishing the institution of a central political power, and the rise of commercial capitalism finance, the method to retain metals possessed while the resist selling and buying. Gold has become a vehicle of currency, an instrument of political change and a symbol of the power of the nations.

Gold in Armenia

Demonstrated resources of gold in Armenia (measured + indicated, or A, B, and ...