Mining development requires increased rail infrastructure
Ardeshir Saad Mohammadi, at the fourth meeting of the Iranian Mining Policy Council, called for a team to identify road, rail and maritime transport needs along with statistics and priorities for the next ten to fifteen years.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, Deputy Director of Mines and Minerals Development Projects of Iran Mines and Minerals Development and Development Organization (IMIDRO), said: Mining needs to be at least thirteen thousand kilometers in infrastructure for the development of the mine in 2006 We are rail transport, while the total rail infrastructure in the country is only twelve thousand kilometers.
Ardeshir Saad Mohammadi, at the fourth meeting of the Iranian Mining Policy Council, called for a team to identify road, rail and maritime transport needs along with statistics and priorities for the next ten to fifteen years.
Foreigners also complained about the lack of a clear roadmap for our areas in dealing with the Iranian mining sector, he said.
Saad Mohammadi expressed hope that the investment attractiveness of the mining sector would be well known.
"If these priorities are announced, the direction of the private sector will also be identified," he said. "Our priorities today are not classified," the official said. "Policies need to be written and visible to everyone."
"For example, in the Sangan region, we will have seventeen million and five hundred thousand tons of pellets, but realizing this will require the development of transport in the region of twenty-three million tons," he said.
Saad Mohammadi continued: Achieving 700,000 tonnes of lead and zinc concentrate in Mehdi Abad of Zanjan, realizing one million and three hundred thousand tonnes of coal in the next five years, and developing Lamerd aluminum capacity of 300,000 tonnes in the first phase, all needed It is the development of transport infrastructure, but maritime policymaking has not been determined and requires major decisions.
Saad Mohammadi emphasized: It should be specified with what kind of rail and road capacity the displacement of iron ore, pellets, steel, coal, lead and zinc, etc. is to be achieved.
* IRNA
