Need to revitalize small scale mines
Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade said: Implementation of small scale mining project with approach to overcome barriers and problems of administration, financing, creation and development of mineral products market, legal affairs and consulting.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, Khodadad Gharibpour said about the implementation of the plan for the revival, activation and development of small scale mines: 4,400 mines have been identified so far out of which 1,770 have been identified. And six mines were examined in the form of two hundred and fifteen projects.
He added: "According to this plan, there is a desire to facilitate the private sector and one thousand 155 mines in the framework of one hundred and fifteen projects to provide infrastructure."
According to Gharibpour, in the plan to revitalize small-scale mines, clinical action was carried out on two hundred and fifty mines in the form of seventy-two projects, of which a total of forty-two mines have been initiated in twenty-eight projects.
Restoration of mines utilizing private sector capacity
The Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce regarding Imidro's policy of establishing and facilitating private sector affairs added: According to the forty-four constitutions that increase the private sector's share in the economy, serious efforts are being made in the field of mining. There is.
He added that the production boom in this project will be possible with the participation of the government and the private sector and will certainly strengthen this practice in the mining and mining industries and the country as well.
Memorandum of Understanding with universities and science centers
Gharibpour recalled the participation of universities and scientific centers in the small scale mining revival project, saying that so far there are 14 investment agreements, seven research and educational agreements, five financing agreements and two startups' agreements to develop small mines. Signed.
According to the report, the total number of mines in the country is estimated at 1,000 mines, with around 5,000 active mines and the rest of Rakdia being equipped.
The country's identified reserves amount to about 60 billion tonnes, of which about forty billion tonnes are certain and the rest are estimated.
Iran ranks 10th in the world in terms of diversity among the world's sixty-eight types of minerals in terms of diversity.
The export value of the mining and minerals sector was announced last year at more than $ 3.9 billion, and is expected to rise this year despite a boycott of the same amount.
* IRNA
