{"id":1166834,"date":"2020-02-20T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1014522"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:23:01","slug":"lydian-wins-water-permit-calls-on-armenia-govt-to-help-end-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1166834","title":{"rendered":"Lydian wins water permit, calls on Armenia govt to help end blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lydian International, which delisted from the TSX earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lydianinternational.co.uk\/news\/2020-news\/490-\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"has been granted a water permit (opens in a new tab)\">has been granted a water permit<\/a> by Armenia&#8217;s ministry of environment for the company&#8217;s Amulsar gold project, but illegal blockades continue to prevent construction from resuming.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The company had previously sought permission to draw water from the Arpa River on two prior occasions with higher level flow rates (in excess of 40 l\/s) to support long term operations, both of which were denied by the ministry.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>In late December, Lydian applied to draw water at a lower flow rate, which is estimated to be enough to support completing construction of the project. The permit allows the company to draw water at a rate of 11 l\/s.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to resolving the dispute with environmental protesters and ending the blockade at the gold mine, the company has called on the Armenian government to take &#8220;immediate action&#8221; to address the continuing illegality around the Amulsar project.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial mine, located in a remote mountainous region, has been in development since 2016 with nearly $500 million invested in it so far. However, a group of local residents and environmental activists have been preventing access to the mine since June 2018, putting pressure on the government.<\/p>\n<p>The company believes its project meets all the legal and environmental requirements and would generate hundreds of jobs and millions in tax revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amulsar mine has been in development since 2016 with nearly $500 million invested in it so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166960,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166834\/revisions\/1166960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}