We have to sell raw materials
In the process, most of the miners start selling raw materials to keep the mine afloat and able to offset their costs, even though the raw material has a detrimental effect on the country's economy. Crude is like harmful oil dependence.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, the liquidity of companies and mineral factories should be provided from within the country, but when this does not happen, the miners are forced to go for export and sell their raw material. Miners have to go to retail to sell their goods at a higher rate and make a living for themselves.
In the process, most of the miners start selling raw materials to keep the mine afloat and able to offset their costs, even though the raw material has a detrimental effect on the country's economy. Crude is harmful like oil dependency, we have to know that mines and resources are limited and end up like oil someday.
So we have to move against crude and try to move our thinking towards value added. If we believe this is not a good thing, the government must reconsider its policy. As an approach to dealing with crude, I believe that the government should play a more vibrant role and prevent it from being politically correct.
First of all, companies that depend on the public sector should be adequately supervised so as not to be crude. The state-owned companies themselves must stop the crude sellers from letting such a thing happen and first of all go their own way.
In the meantime, we need to emphasize the growth of mining processing units to avoid crude sales, to see more employment growth in the country and also to be effective in the country's economic growth process. Of course, the growth of value-added requires sophisticated investment and technology, and we need to utilize as much machinery and knowledge as we can.
* Mohammad Ali Rahimiipour Anarak, Miner activist
