
Serob Ter-Pogosian, the president of Metal Prince, a US company owning Akhtala Ore Mining and Processing Works, has documentary proofs that
the Statue of Liberty – built in France and granted to the United States – was made of copper extracted from Akhtala deposit in the Lori region of Armenia . In the 1880s, Henry de Gaulle, (the father of the ex-president of France, Charles de Gaulle) managed the prospecting activities
in Akhtala, which then was under concession of a French company. At that time the whole copper mined in Akhtala was taken to France.
225 tons of copper was spent on the construction of the statue. It was officially inaugurated by President Cleveland on Oct 28 1886.
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