Revitalize small mines and prevent them from closing
Deputy Minister of Mines and Minerals of Tehran Province Organization of Mines and Mines announced the formation of a small and medium mines reclamation task force and said: With these workshops and meetings, the problems of mines are raised and solved by industry facilitation staff until the mines are resuscitated and closed. Prevent.
According to Iran's International Stone Exhibition, Ali Abdi stated: There are three hundred and fifty-five mines in the province of Tehran with mining licenses, of which two hundred and eighty are miners, of which two hundred and fifteen are mines. Sixty-five mines are active. Seventy-five other mines also lack exploitation that need to be auctioned or transferred. In terms of extraction, we have also extracted twenty-eight million tonnes in the past year, up from three million tonnes in 2016 compared to 1396 tonnes.
Deputy Minister of Mines and Minerals of the Tehran Province Organization of Industry, stating that Tehran mines have the third rank of mining in the country, said that this year the process of mining has continued to increase. Eighteen million tonnes were extracted in the first nine months of this year, an increase of one and six percent compared to the same period last year of 17.7 million tonnes. In addition, we had a 300 percent increase in operating licenses in the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year, which was twelve cases, up from thirty-five cases this year.
He added: Due to the development of mines in Tehran province due to environmental issues, we have reduced the issuance of exploration licenses compared to last year, which is a reduction of about 30%. Meanwhile, the state's rights to mines in the province in the past nine months amounted to sixty-eight billion riyals, an increase of 34 percent to 100 billion riyals this year.
Abdi continued: Due to the purpose of organizing mines in Tehran province in terms of technical, safety and engineering extraction, workshops with the province's natural resources have been held. Fuel workshops have also been held to provide fuel for the mines, and there have been some excellent openings. In addition, two small and medium-sized mining reclamation workshops have been held so as to launch small-scale mines using semi-active and inactive mines. Article 20 workshops like industry facilitation headquarters, mines that have problems in terms of technology, government rights or ... problems, and the organization by providing the necessary deadlines, solve their problems and prevent them from being closed as far as possible. he does.
Deputy Minister of Mines and Minerals of the Tehran Province Organization of Industry, pointing out that most of the mines in Tehran province are related to building materials such as sand, lime, carcass, etc., and said: Cement, sand processing mines, concrete, brick, asphalt plants, etc. are operating more strongly last year and even more active than last year, and given that most of these mines are consumed domestically, We haven't had much trouble exporting, but definitely some of the crushed stone, ornamental stone and facade. They are exporting and resolving their problems and bypassing sanctions in different ways and doing their job.
"Given the raw materials and consumables and even machinery of these mines, more than ninety-five percent are supplied internally, so there has been no problem so far and no further problems, so it can be said that the sanctions on mines and the mining industry," he said. Due to the capability and experience of the activists of this field and our miners, the work of the mines in Tehran province will not be affected.
* ISNA
