Forty-two active activists in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad

Forty-two active activists in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
  • 2020-04-11
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Deputy of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Industry, Mining and Trade Organization: There are currently forty-two mines in this province that are active and in operation.

According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, Dara Faramarzi stated: Seventy-five items of mining licenses have been issued in the province with an investment volume of more than four hundred and four billion rials.

He added: "This has led to the employment of seven hundred and thirty-seven people and they have more than one billion five hundred and twenty million tons of mineral reserves."

The deputy director of the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Industry, Mining and Trade Organization stated: The main minerals in the province are cement, gypsum, lime, carcass and malone, marble, bauxite, celestine, marl and others.

Faramarzi emphasized: "It is hoped that this year, by assigning exploration areas to Imidro and the Geological Survey and Exploration Organization of more than ten thousand square kilometers of the province, we will witness an effective leap in identifying the province's mineral potentials and completing exploration and mining operations." And create mining industries.

He said: Last year, more than nine thousand and seven hundred million rials of government salaries were collected from miners and holders of temporary mining licenses, which has increased by more than thirty-two percent compared to the same period in 1397.

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, deputy heads of the Industry, Mining and Trade Organization, said: "Also, based on the data of the existing mining licenses at the end of last year, the definitive reserves of these mines are 8%, nominal extraction capacity, 5,024%, employment of two and a half percent and Their investment has increased by nine percent compared to 1397.

According to the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Industries, Mines and Trade Organization, the province has a high potential for mining and needs investment to flourish.

The discovery of the country's first nitrate mineral reserve in the Dishmuk section of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad has put Iran among the countries with this strategic mineral.

* IRNA