Insignificant share of stone processing exports in Iranian industry
Member of Miners Association of Markazi Province: Exports of processed stone in Iranian stone industry are very small.
Reza Barati, referring to stone exports, said that the share of crude stone exports in the Iranian stone industry is very small and it is necessary to provide export growth and development platforms for this category.
He added: In 1388 out of thirteen million tons of crude stone produced, only 880,000 tons of stone were exported and the rest of the crude was exported within the country. The figure for Turkey is 60%.
A member of the Central Provincial Miners' Association stated: Italy exports the forty-two percent of its crude stone annually, and Spain has taken a very serious forty-seven stone industry. It exports a percentage of its rock as raw material.
Barati noted: The issue that should be considered the most in export is the increase in production, when with current production we cannot respond to our factories and there is a debate over the supply of raw materials every day, how can we think about exports? .
"Twenty percent of the country's mineral resources have been discovered so far. Twenty percent of the 1,000 and three hundred mines are identified and many of them are active. To increase production it is necessary to pursue more serious exploration and exploitation of new mines," he said. Vector.
A member of the Central Minerals Association of Iran said: "With the little exploration that has been carried out, Iran's mineral reserves are estimated at 14 billion tonnes. we have.
"Unfortunately, there is no equilibrium in the country's stone consumption, for example, all the factories suddenly demand travertine and other stones are completely abandoned, or all of them suddenly have granite and other stones," Barrati said.
He added: "When a miner does not have a buyer domestically, what is the problem for a miner to export that stone abroad, a miner who does not have a buyer in the country has two ways to either close his mine or have to To export it.
* Tasnim
