Ancient Gold mining in the Balkan region is well documented starting in the medieval times, but modern mining begun in just the last 50 years. Most of this mining was done in the region that covers the three countries; Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo. Other than gold some of the other metals mined in the region […]
Europe Gold Mines
Gold & Mineral Mining in Armenia
Gold mining and the mining sector in general is very important to the economy of Armenia contributing over a half of its total exports. The major mineral is molybdenum but Armenia is also known to have significant gold deposits located throughout its territory. The country has about 13 operational gold and gold polymetallic mines. There […]