ZCMC CJSC continues to welcome groups interested in visiting its open pit mine and production area. The organization of such visits has above all the goal of professional orientation of young people as a major priority of the ZCMC, therefore the latter continuously hosts schoolchildren and students, allowing them to see the work of the mine and production areas on site, and to get acquainted with the distinctive features of the sector.
To form a true idea and opinion about the industrial giant, seeing it with one’s own eyes and interacting with specialists is useful, especially, in terms of professional orientation. ZCMC attaches particular importance to meeting with young people from affected communities, as recruiting local labor to the Company's staff is a priority (today, more than 90 percent of ZCMC's staff are locals).
April and May were packed with such visits.
Students and teachers from the secondary school in the affected Achanan settlement visited the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine. The day after the tour, the students, along with employees of the Combine's environmental protection department, planted trees on their school grounds. The planting material, most of which is evergreen, was again provided by ZCMC.
Next the ZCMC hosted high school students from Geghanush settlement in Syunik Province. They also visited the open pit, watched the work of giant machinery, and visited the enrichment plant. The students were impressed, their expectations exceeded, and, as they said, they now have a keener interest in the mining industry.
The Combine also hosted students from the "Mkhitar Sebastatsi" educational complex. High school students came to Syunik with a local history and environmental program, and their first stop was at the ZCMC. After receiving appropriate instructions, they visited the open pit, then toured the enrichment plant and got acquainted with the work on site, the entire process of the ore-to-concentrate cycle.
The group of students and faculty from the Gyumri branch of the Armenian State University of Economics also visited ZCMC recently. Many group members were in Syunik for the first time, and the Combine was a new discovery for future economists and financiers. They honestly admitted that before coming to Kajaran deposit, they had no idea how copper and molybdenum were extracted, and it turns out that mining is an attractive sector.
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