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**Vrej1915** · 03-29-2013, 07:23 PM

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ARMENIAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S OUTPUT UPPED 36.7% TO AMD 757,9MLN IN JAN-FEB 2013

YEREVAN, March 29. /ARKA/. Armenia's chemical industry output climbed
by 36.7% in January-February 2013 to 757.9 million drams, from the
analogical period a year ago, according to the National Statistical
Service of Armenia.

According to the statistical report, the plastic production in Jan-Feb
2013 stood at 1386,2 tons, 13.9% lower, compared with the same period
a year earlier, while that of varnish and paint products rose by 0.4%
to 752.2 tons.

Armenia's chemical industry produced 209.1 tons of cleaners in
January-February 2013 (4.3% year-on-year increase).

Some 1, 895 kilograms of synthetic corundum (61.4% growth) in the
reported period was produced, no caustic soda and synthetic rubber
were produced in the country within the reported period. ($1 - 419.08
drams).

**Artashes** · 03-29-2013, 09:37 PM

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Originally posted by Vrej1915 View Post

ARMENIAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S OUTPUT UPPED 36.7% TO AMD 757,9MLN IN JAN-FEB 2013

YEREVAN, March 29. /ARKA/. Armenia's chemical industry output climbed
by 36.7% in January-February 2013 to 757.9 million drams, from the
analogical period a year ago, according to the National Statistical
Service of Armenia.

According to the statistical report, the plastic production in Jan-Feb
2013 stood at 1386,2 tons, 13.9% lower, compared with the same period
a year earlier, while that of varnish and paint products rose by 0.4%
to 752.2 tons.

Armenia's chemical industry produced 209.1 tons of cleaners in
January-February 2013 (4.3% year-on-year increase).

Some 1, 895 kilograms of synthetic corundum (61.4% growth) in the
reported period was produced, no caustic soda and synthetic rubber
were produced in the country within the reported period. ($1 - 419.08
drams).

Vrej , do you know if synthetic corundum is gem grade ?
Or do you have any suggestion how I might find out ?
I like the stuff .
Thanks
Artashes

**Vrej1915** · 03-29-2013, 10:04 PM

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Originally posted by Artashes View Post

Vrej , do you know if synthetic corundum is gem grade ?
Or do you have any suggestion how I might find out ?
I like the stuff .
Thanks
Artashes

Frankly,
I do not know, how to judge the quality.
I know it is produced since soviet times in Vanatzor (aka-Kirovakan), the factory named now as Chimprom.
I know it was one of the prides of Armenia's chemical industry.
I must have small samples somewhere, dating those years. The ones I have are dark blue and dark red/ruby colored.
They have cylindrical forms, aprox 8 cm long..
I think color is changed with the modification of additional impurities, during the melt of Zyrconium oxydes??
Frankly I do not know to whom they sell by now, and for wich purpose they are used.
Might well be gem quality, after all, since the colors I remember are well gem like (ruby?).
But if I do remember, in soviet industry, they were used mostly for industrial uses?? Once again, I may be wrong, and perhaps I make a confusion, but I think they were used in petrol industry, as parts of the driller heads, in place of diamonds ???
We also used to produce the natural lubrification of the same drillers then, from a mine near Ijevan.... known as Bentonite.

I'm afraid, I have no idea how you could find the quality?
If you are really interested, may be you could contact the producer in Vanatzor?
If not, perhaps you may google it?

**Vrej1915** · 03-29-2013, 10:12 PM

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**Vrej1915** · 03-29-2013, 10:21 PM

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Originally posted by Vrej1915 View Post

http://www.tradekey.com/profile_cont...y-chimprom.htm

I guess they are gem quality, if we consider the color references cited on this page, saphir, emeraud... ??

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**Artashes** · 03-30-2013, 04:19 AM

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Originally posted by Vrej1915 View Post

I guess they are gem quality, if we consider the color references cited on this page, saphir, emeraud... ??

http://fr.tradekey.com/product_view/id/285387.htm

Yes , my memory is coming back . As a young man I used to buy this stuff I America and it was made in Soviet union . It was never mentioned which of the soviet socialist countries it was actually produced on .
The round cylinders are called " boules " and probably narrow at one end .
What you are speaking of is definitely gem ( synthetic ) quality .
I saved all my old catalogs from 40 + years ago but in these modern times have not seen it anywhere .
Will rereading and search out your info , to see if I can access this .
I used to love to make knife blades of ruby , Safire etc for unique one of a kind knives as well as many other things .
Thank you
Artashes

**Artashes** · 03-30-2013, 07:42 AM

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Very interesting info you've supplied Vrej .
I'm now seeing why this beautiful synthetic gem material was produced ( I think ) .
They needed the conundrum for drilling purposes and realized by introducing other elements they could produce gem colors . They no dought did not need the color for the industrial use so this whole gem thing was a by product to pull in extra revenue .
Russia has huge diamond deposit . Most diamond is not gem grade so am surprised they did not cheaply produce diamond drills instead of corundum .
If France produced the statue of liberty with Armenian copper and the synthetic conundrum is really Armenian produced , it once again shows how little credit or recognition Armenia gets and how everyone else takes all the glory while never mentioning us .
Thanks again for info .
Artashes

**Artashes** · 03-30-2013, 07:54 AM

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Also it just occurred to me --- if we have copper deposits ( and other mineral / elements ) then we must have the gem material that is associated with these . Do you ( Vrej ) know if Hay produced , turquoise , vericite , chrysocolla , other gems ? Up here in Alaska none ( big / small ) mining company's don't care about accompanying rocks but only the ores . Am wondering if these are being overlooked in Armenia as they are up here ?
Artashes

**Vrej1915** · 03-30-2013, 09:15 AM

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Originally posted by Artashes View Post

Also it just occurred to me --- if we have copper deposits ( and other mineral / elements ) then we must have the gem material that is associated with these . Do you ( Vrej ) know if Hay produced , turquoise , vericite , chrysocolla , other gems ? Up here in Alaska none ( big / small ) mining company's don't care about accompanying rocks but only the ores . Am wondering if these are being overlooked in Armenia as they are up here ?
Artashes

You(re welcome.
About the cylinders, you are right, at one end, they are thinner.
So what you used to buy then, was very probably Vanazor made.

For this question, I do not know for sure, but if they do overlook in the US, then certainly they do the same here.
Our mining industry is very basic and rude.
The waste mud they abandon is still so rich, that back a decade ago, before the 2008 crisis and the rise of Gold once, an indian company purchased Sotk gold mine, and with it the Ararat gold factory.... just to stop mining in Sotk, and recycle the waste mont near the factory in Ararat....
Once they took all the Gold, they declared bankrupcy and got away ... not anticipating the rise of the Gold price

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