Contractors Manage the Growth of Bureaucracy in Mining
Although there is a good deal of investment in the mining sector and we have wandering funds that can be pushed into the mining sector, the bureaucracy has made the incentives less attractive.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, it is always said that the incentives for the miners to go up and support them to increase production are to contribute to economic growth.
But in practice, the miners face a complex administrative bureaucracy as the biggest barrier in the way of production, sometimes motivating them. Although there is a good deal of investment in the mining sector and we have wandering funds that can be pushed into the mining sector, the bureaucracy has made the incentives less attractive.
Change our thinking
Aziz Mirzaiian, head of the Iranian Mining Association's mining commission, criticizing the severity of the administrative bureaucracy in the country, said that the performance of ministries and government agencies in relation to their sovereign duties is weak. They either do not understand the laws well or bypass them easily and create new obstacles to economic activists by issuing conflicting and numerous directives.
The head of the Mining Commission of the Iranian Association of Stone Babian said that the administrative bureaucracy does not fall into the field of mining.
Referring to the role of managers in reducing administrative bureaucracy, he went on: Contractors seek to exercise power and take advantage of the weaknesses of laws, but managers who seek only management always benefit from the benefits of laws.
"If managers focus on the strengths of the laws, they will provide a platform for investment in various areas, including mining in the country, and they will grow," he said.
Mirzaiian emphasized that we need to change our thinking, saying: To solve this problem we need to modify our thinking and laws. I do not believe that anything will happen until this happens. If we refine our thinking, we all go to the point where we can make the most of the positive points of the rules and see the weaknesses of the rules that hinder development.
"The government is not doing its job well, as a result of the bureaucracy growing," he said. Mining supervision is very important, and miners must be aware of its differences with other sectors. Working within the range, the type of mineral, its quality and grade is important, but we find that sometimes a person is unable to continue working properly, but another person does the job easily.
Follow the Butterfly
Saying Qasim Meshkani, an expert on mining, about the bureaucratic bureaucracy in the mine, said: "Operating licenses, which are one year old, can sometimes take up to ten years." Investment in the mining sector, apart from legal measures, depends on the province, the taste of provincial officials and the expertise of the ministry.
"In mines such as metals, you must first have first and second or so-called detailed and semi-detailed exploration," the miner said. In-depth exploration should determine what the deposit is, whether the mining is surface-justified, and ultimately provide the analysis of the ore. But in the semi-detailed exploration, costs are increased, routes are constructed, geophysical surveyed, and some sort of final economic justification summarized. Finally, the provincial industry, mine and commerce organization issued a final expert examination and operating permit, but we have seen that another mine near the same area has neither drilled nor trenched but received a license within a few months.
Meshkani cited administrative bureaucracy and the inadequate mining process, saying: "As a miner we go through all the stages of obtaining a license, but we see a lot of flaws and false excuses." Twenty-seven of us have been mistaken for the last time, most of them wrong and unprofessional. For example, in one of the reports we have used the name of the two billiards we used during our work as Bill Zuccio's two hundred lines and six elsewhere, Bill Comosso's two hundred and twenty zuccini's six lines, to my surprise that we have been misunderstood. And they never noticed that the shovels we rented had different brands and years of production. But where we hit the trench information, and maybe even a slight mistake in one of the trenches, we admit that it was our technical mistake that they didn't realize and correct.
He explains that one of the reasons for the rise of bureaucracy is the ignorance of the experts and the weakness of their knowledge. Unfortunately, sometimes there are forces at work that have just graduated from college and are suddenly managing. Thus the process of ectopic defects becomes lengthy and sometimes worrying.
"So while we have to provide semi-detailed information within a year to obtain a prospecting license, there is a lot of flaws in looking for a two-year mining license and a license to operate," he said.
