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=Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources of The Republic of Armenia=

History
Armenian energy system has its 100-year history, during which the "ArmEnergo" department (which was formed in November, 1936, with the decision of Soviet Union) played its important role. The aim of "ArmEnergo" was to manage and control the exploitation and development of electric stations and networks. In that department, there were included 2 HPPs of Yerevan, HPP of Gyumri, "DzoraHPP" and other technical services. Afterwards, "ArmEnergo" became the official body eligible to control whole energy system of Armenia. After the collapse of Soviet Union, Armenian economic reforms and energetic crisis required new control mechanisms. In order to overcome this, in 1992 there was created the Minisrty of Energetics and Fuel of The Republic of Armenia. Then, in August 4 of 1995 by the decision of Armenian government, the ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Energetics of The Republic of Armenia, which lately, in 18 April of 2008 by the decree of Armenian president was renamed as Ministry of Energetics and Natural Resources of The Republic of Armenia. Then, the former one was named as the Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources of The Republic of Armenia. Today, the main aim of the activity of the ministry is to develop and maintain the governance policy of The Republic of Armenia in the sphere of energy infrastructures and natural resources.

Former ministers`

Structure
Current minister is Ashot Manukyan. Deputy Ministers are Areg Galstyan, Iosif Isayan, Hayk Harutyunyan and Vardan Gevorgyan.

The structure after the minister goes`

General information about natural resources
For Armenia’s national economy the mining sector component is very important one. Ore concentrates and metals are the main exported goods from Armenia and their portion is about half of all exported material. About 670 mines are officially registered. And among these mines, more than hald of this, around 400 mines are exploited. Ministry reports that in the Republic of Armenia there are lots of iron, copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc, gold, silver, antimony, aluminium, and also other types of minerals and metals. Metal minerals include 7 copper-molybdenum mines, 4 copper mines, 14 gold and gold-polymetallic mines, 2 polymetallic mine, 2 iron ore mines and 1 aluminium mine. Also, as a result of volcanic processes, mountainous rocks were formed. Notable ones of the rocks are light rocks (tufa, perlite, pumice-stone, zeolite, scoria). In addition, different types of basalts, granites, nephelite syenite, marble make huge percent in resources in Armenia.