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OGP Annual Summit Commitment Template


COUNTRY Republic of Armenia

TITLE OF COMMITMENT Electronic Mining Database

DESCRIPTION (up to 200 words) Given the recent developments in the sector of the Armenian mining industry, the issue of fair, transparent and efficient resource (mine) allocation is among key priorities for the Armenian Government. Most of the data on the Armenian geology (including the data on mining sites and ore occurrences) are stored in archives of the Republican geological foundation. It was established by the Armenian Government in 2002, and aims to gather and store general data, reports, mining permits and researches on Armenias geological sector. The Foundations archives contain reports on 750 mining sites and 600 ore occurrences. The content of each report amounts to 2-3 books on average. Moreover, the information on mining sites and ore occurrences also includes 5000 units of foundation data sets in total, as well as geological maps and initial information sets. According to the latest update, the foundation archives contain about 12000 text-based reports (150 pages on average) and 8000 maps/graphs (1.5 sqm on average). The information on mining sites and ore occurrences is a great value for the Armenian mining industry. Furthermore, the significant part of data stored in the Foundation is of huge historical and scientific importance. Thus, to insure transparent and efficient appropriation of limited geological resources, as well as to preserve the information in archives the Armenian Government has initiated the digitalization program of data stored in the Foundations archives. The objectives of the Program are as follows: To make data widely available on request through the Foundations web page; To preserve the information available, as the data in archives is paper-based and a part of it was damaged due to poor maintenance and time-caused decay, and will degrade even more over time.

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