One and two billion rials aid of Mahabad miners to health
Head of Mines Affairs of Mahabad Department of Industry, Mines and Trade: The miners of this city donated one billion and two hundred million Rials to the health sector to participate in the fight against corona.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, Ako Javanmardi added: During the invitation and holding meetings with the active miners of this city who were able to help in the field of health, the amount of one billion two hundred and thirty million Rials was collected and equipped to equip the seventy-two temporary dormitory hospital. The city was handed over to its board of trustees.
He mentioned the number of active mines in the city as thirty-three and said: "Twenty-four mines are inactive due to the lack of sales market, decrease in construction and increase in the cost of extracted minerals, and sixteen mines have been rigged during the last year." Eligible.
The head of mining affairs of Mahabad Department of Industry, Mines and Trade stated: Last year, 336,000 tons of various minerals were extracted from the active mines of this city, which was an increase of twenty-six percent compared to the same period of the previous year.
Noting that twelve types of minerals are extracted in the city, Javanmardi added: "The most important and most extracted rocks, respectively, include limestone with a volume of one hundred and thirty-eight thousand tons, iron ore with sixty-one thousand and six hundred tons and The silica stone weighs fifty-eight thousand five hundred tons.
He considered Mahabad as one of the main poles of "barite" stone extraction in the country and said: Last year, thirty-six thousand and seven hundred tons of barite stone, which is an effective material in the oil industry, was extracted from the mines of this city.
He continued: "Barite stone is used in cooling and lubricating drilling rigs, internal lining of oil wells, transferring drilling materials into the ground and controlling abnormal pressures inside oil and gas wells."
According to IRNA, some of the city's mineral products, including decorative stones, travertine, marble and granite, are also exported to neighboring countries such as Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
There are fifty-one of the sixty-eight types of minerals identified in the country in West Azerbaijan; currently there are four hundred and sixty-eight mines in the province and 5,220 people are directly involved in the mines of this province. .
* IRNA
