The Challenge of Legal Mining with Local Conflicts
The exploitation of the country's mines has been plagued by local outbreaks in recent decades, which has had a devastating role in the policy of booming production and utilization of raw materials.
According to Iran's Stone Exhibition, Jafar Sarkhini, Deputy Minister of Mines and Minerals, had previously said that natural resources, forests, mineral reserves and so on are considered to be the country's capital and governments are trustees of the people and problems are expected. By using village councils, provincial officials, governors, governors and people's deputies in the Majlis are eliminated in a codified manner.
Surveys show that one of the unauthorized excavations of rock and gold from the Andrian Mine of Varzaghan in eastern Azerbaijan in recent months has been widely reflected in public opinion.
Mohammad Reza Bahraman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zarin Dagh Astrakhan Company, which with the participation of a foreign investor from Russia ten years ago has been operating on the basis of legal licenses for exploration and processing in the mine, stated: It is over $ 25 million investment.
According to the head of the Iranian Mine House, the insurgents have been conducting blatant abuses in the mine for five years now, while 500 personnel have been operating at the site, and the insurgents have beaten its staff and They have caused financial and psychological damage.
He noted that most of the fighters are from surrounding villages and native to the area that have damaged equipment and mining machinery.
According to statistics, there are more than 600 mines in East Azarbaijan province, with four hundred and eleven mines active. Minerals such as molybdenum, gold, copper and nepheline syenite are among the minerals extracted in this province.
Bahrain noted: Miners are considered to be tenants who hold the mine for periods of twenty to twenty-five years, but the trend of counterinsurgency activity threatening the sector could result in capital outflows. Be it.
A review of the history of mining operations in relation to the mining sector shows that from the late eighties the Dehbid stone mine in Fars province was affected by the activity of the miners, which was followed by the demolition and fire of the workshop, the mining activity with closures, Kerman province. In addition to having various mineral reserves of iron ore, copper, etc., it is also facing the phenomenon of conflict.
Today, mine operators are calling on the trustee (Ministry of Industry, Mining and Commerce) to take the necessary steps to address this problem and to support investment in the sector, to secure employment and boost production.
Iran has about sixty billion tonnes of identified minerals, of which over forty billion tonnes of definitive reserves.
The country's 5,000 active mines each year extract an average of 400 million tonnes of minerals.
* IRNA
