The reason for the closure of two thousand decorative stone mines
Deputy Minister of Industry: For this year, we have planned to allocate three thousand billion tomans of cheap facilities from the Mining Activities Insurance Fund to exploration, extraction of minerals and mineral machinery.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, Dariush Ismaili added in a special press conference: The Supreme Leader of the Revolution has explicitly stated several times the general and main policy in the country's mining sector, especially in relation to raw material sales. Our production and activities should be such that the sale and export of mineral raw materials is minimized and only in places where it is not possible to process them.
He said that the same path was followed in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, adding: "Previously, the export of minerals was exempt from taxes, and this encouraged the sale of raw materials, but this exemption was removed in the parliament and a major step was taken."
Ismaili added: "The duty of the government and the Ministry of Silence is to provide the ground for processing and creating added value for mineral raw materials."
"In the year of the production leap, our plan is to add about 25 percent to our previously discovered reserves," he said.
Ismaili said that one of the main programs of the Ministry of Industry is to provide the necessary equipment, adding: "Three projects have been defined in this regard, one of which is equipping and modernizing mines."
He continued: "In this regard, we have had meetings with manufacturers, contractors and machine builders, and our priority is domestic construction."
The Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Industries of the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that the currency from the export of mineral products has been poured into a basket and all mining activists can use it to develop the mining sector and the mining industry.
Noting that we have exported more than 20 million tons of iron ore over the past ten years, Ismaili added: "This figure has dropped to less than six million tons last year, most of it in the first six months."
He added: "We have one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty inactive iron ore mines in the country, most of the problems of which are the lack of equipment, the market and financial issues, and we have offered to restart them."
Ismaili said: "Two weeks ago, the price of ingots at the Senate exchange rate was 300,000 tomans higher than the global rate."
He added: "We have left it to the relevant associations to do whatever they want to do about it."
The Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Industries of the Ministry of Industry and Trade said: "The main problem in the field of decorative stones is the lack of stone, because we have four billion tons of decorative stone and produce fourteen million tons, but with the complications that closed last year, about one thousand mines out of two thousand mines." Decorative stone, closed.
"Investors are bringing the world's latest technology into the country, and we're helping them," he said.
* Tasnim
