Eighty-five percent of the country's mines are mined

Eighty-five percent of the country's mines are mined
  • 2019-10-28
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Managing Director of Iran Mining Production Company: Eighty-five percent of the country's mining employment and sixty-five percent of the country's mineral production are small mines.

According to the Iranian Stone Exhibition, Wajihullah Jafari on Wednesday at the first meeting of the Small Scale Mining Coordination Council of Isfahan added: "Ninety-eight percent of Iran's mines are mines.

He added: Small and medium-sized mines have a special status and influence in the country's mining sector.

He said the plan to revive small-scale mines in the form of resistance-economy plans was put forward years ago and this year the level of support for these mines has increased.

The director of the Iranian Minerals Supply and Production Company stated that the main focus of the project has been transferred to the private sector and stated that the financing of the project will be financed through associations, mining houses, chambers of commerce and activists.

He continued: Two of the four members of the Coordination Council of Mines of the country, are selected from the organizations and the interest and sense of duty in the private sector and organizations and associations, is the main focus of work in this sector.

Jafari reiterated: "The council has covered fifteen provinces in the past, but now it covers all provinces, sectors and minerals."

Managing Director of Iran Mineral Production Company noted: More activities have been done in Esfahan than other provinces in the field of iron, copper, lead and manganese.

He added: Miners declare liquidity their first problem, but the country's mining problems must be properly identified and taken seriously.

Jafari added: "We are looking for effective approvals for the country's mines from the Resistance Economic Staff, and the miners should help us in this area."

"The government should provide a platform for people who have the financial resources and interest to work in the mining sector," he added.

The first meeting of the Isfahan Small Scale Mining Coordination Council was held in the head office of the Mines and Minerals Commission of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture and the head of the Isfahan Mining and Trade Organization.

As one of the provinces with high mineral capacities in the country, Isfahan has about eighty-forty mines with more than ten billion billion Rials in investment, nearly 400 of which are decorative stones.

About 30 percent of the province's ornamental stones are exported to other countries as raw and unprocessed. Decorative rocks, gold, sand, limestone, iron ore, copper, lead and zinc are the most important products and products of the province's mines.

The province is the fourth largest country in terms of number of active mines but the government is ranked fourth in the province. Esfahan is the country's building stone production hub and has about 2,000 mining units in the province, of which about 1,000 industrial units. , There are seven hundred unions and the rest are unauthorized units.

Isfahan has a population of more than five million, more than nine thousand large and small production units with a capital of two hundred and twenty-one trillion rials and employment of two hundred and sixty-three thousand.

This line is the most industrialized province in the country with about eighty-forty mines being exploited with an investment of over ten billion rials and about one hundred and eighty thousand unions.

* IRNA