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    The Sotk gold mine (Armenian: Սոթքի ոսկու հանքավայր, romanized: Sot’k’i vosku hank’avayr), known in Azerbaijan as the Zod gold mine (Azerbaijani: Zod...
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    45.86472 Sotk (Armenian: Սոթք) is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, well known for its gold mines. According...
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    a group of 250 Azerbaijani soldiers had arrived at the Sotk gold mine, one of the largest gold deposits in the South Caucasus, located on the border of...
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    Armenia. The Sotk gold mine near Vardenis has one of the largest gold deposits in Armenia. It is owned and operated by the "GeoProMining Gold" company. After...
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    activities—namely the Sotk gold mine on the southeastern shore of the lake—caused significant heavy metal, especially vanadium, pollution of the Sotk and Masrik...
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    non-metal resources. The gold mine of Sotk is active. There are numerous types of rock used in construction, as well as mines of semi-precious stones.[citation...
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    home to the Geopromining Gold recovery plant of Ararat, which extracts gold from the raw ore sent from the gold mine in Sotk which is 20 kilometres (12...
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    year round by freight trains, running beyond Shorzha to transport gold ore from Sotk mine just beyond Vardenis back via the Yerevan western bypass freight...
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    and the gold processing facility in the town of Ararat. The Ararat Gold Recovery extracts gold from the raw ore sent from the gold mine in Sotk located...
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    3 copper mines, 13 gold and gold-polymetallic mines, 2 polymetalilc mines and 2 iron ore mines. In addition to those mines registered in the state inventory...
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    ancient mining are evident in the areas of presently exploited mines (Sotk, Meghradzor - gold; Kapan, Alaverdi - copper; Hrazdan - iron, etc.). Metallurgical...
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    alternative route has been closed since Azerbaijan took control of the Dadivank-Sotk section (in Kalbajar) during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (2020). There...
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    factory near its Gegharkunik mine in Sotk, posing a severe danger to the nearby Lake Sevan. The factory in processing gold from ore, would require the...
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