According to the International Exhibition of Iranian Stone, mines and mining industries have a strategic and important role in the development of the country, and in the current situation where the enemies have imposed cruel sanctions on us in all areas, especially oil exports, the best alternative is It is the expansion of mining and the productivity of the mining industry.

There is a close relationship between the jump in production and the country's economic growth. In this regard, production and employment in various sectors, especially in the mining sector, can lead to more currency appreciation and improve the country's economic conditions.

The development of any country depends on its economic growth, and the development of various sectors requires income and spending.

According to the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Industries, Mining and Trade Organization, the province has a lot of potential in the field of mining and needs investment to flourish.

The most important mines of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad include Celestine, Boxite, Gypsum, Cement Raw Materials and Brick and Building Materials, and if these resources are properly exploited, we can largely export, create jobs and fulfill the slogan of the year.

The world's fourth nitrate mine is located in the Dishmuk section of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, and in this regard, Iran is among the countries with this strategic mineral.

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Provinces have an area of ​​16,000 square kilometers. According to Hossein Kalantari, the governor of the province, no studies have been conducted on the province's mines until recent years, but now detailed information studies of 7,000 square kilometers of its mineral areas, about 50 percent of the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad are expanding.

 Kalantari added: "Previously, no studies have been done on Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad mines, while this province needs to be seen and supported in the field of mining."

He added: "Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad need activities and work in all sectors, and the necessary follow-ups will be done in different sectors."

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad governors said: "This province has risen from 28th to 21st in the discussion of mines, but this rank is not acceptable and should reach the average rank in the middle of the table and among the top 15 provinces in the country."

Kalantari stated: The detailed information studies of 7,000 square kilometers of the province will be completed by Imidro (Iran's Organization for Development and Renovation of Mines and Mining Industries) by the end of September, and the status of the province's promising areas will be determined by the end of these studies.

He said: "Investors can be present in the province based on the studies done and the field of investment will be provided based on the province's mineral projects."

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad governors added: "Also, the reactivation of fourteen inactive mines in the province has been targeted by the Iranian Minerals Production Company."

He said: "One of the concerns of the province is in fact the optimal use of existing mines."

Kalantari emphasized: "Due to the region's capacities in the gypsum, celestine and bauxite sectors, the feasibility, technical and economic studies of these projects will be prepared by Imidro within the next month at most, and if it is possible to build factories related to these mining industries." Establish relevant factories in cooperation with the private sector.

He was satisfied with the manner and amount of payment of facilities in the province, and specified: forty-five percent of the expenses of this province are more than our resources, and in fact, the banks are not idle and are working.

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad governors said one of the province's obstacles is that the province's indigenous financial resources have been invested elsewhere, and people who intend to use the bank's internal resources are giving up, because the use of resources is conditional on Sixty percent physical progress.

Stating that the government's will to solve the problems is serious, Kalantari said: "Due to the special circumstances of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, the physical progress ceiling for this province is expected to be reduced from 60% to 30% so that we can take more successful steps."

Deputy Minister of Industries and Mines of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Industries, Mines and Trade Organization also said: "Currently, there are seventy-five items of mining licenses with a definite reserve of one billion and five hundred million Tomans in the province."

Dara Faramarzi added: "The annual nominal extraction of these mines is five million tons, of which the exploitation license of mines, forty-one mines with employment of more than four hundred and forty people in the province is active and in operation."

Referring to the most important minerals in the province, he stressed: Celestine phosphate is the most important mineral in the province, cement raw materials, gypsum and also brick raw materials.

Deputy Minister of Industries and Mines of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Industry, Mining and Trade Organization stated: The most important problems of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad mining units are local and government conflicts, high extraction costs, lack of equipment and machinery and lack of up-to-date exploration methods. Lack of credit and bank facilities, non-compliance of executive bodies with mining activities and construction of access roads to mines, lack of credit for exploration operations in the province.

Faramarzi stated that one of the programs of the organization is to use the mineral potentials of the province, and continued: "Economic studies of these mines are being completed and now in the discussion of bauxite, celestine and gypsum we are conducting technical studies through the production of Iranian minerals." If it is economical, it will be possible to build mining industries related to these materials in the province and investors will enter in this field.

He stressed: "This year, the year of production leaps, the launch of inactive mines through the elimination of local conflicts and the construction of access roads, the provision of facilities through the Mining Investment Insurance Fund and the provision of mining machinery to develop the province's mines are on the agenda."

Deputy Minister of Industries and Mines of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Mining Industry and Trade Organization, regarding the activation of small mines, said: "This year, efforts are being made to reactivate small and inactive mines by providing financial resources and resolving disputes."

Faramarzi added: "It is hoped that this year, with the assignment of exploration zones (seven thousand and fourteen square kilometers) to Imidro and the Geological Survey, we will witness an effective leap in identifying the province's mineral potentials and completing exploration operations and exploiting mines and creating industries." Let's be mineral.

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.

Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad said: "Also, according to the data of the existing mining licenses at the end of 2009, the definitive reserves of these mines are eight percent, nominal extraction capacity, five and twenty-four percent, employment two and a half percent." And their investment has not increased by two percent compared to 1397.

Faramarzi stated: The most mines in the province are located in Boyer-Ahmad city (twenty-two cases) and the most active mines are located in Gachsaran city (twelve cases).

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad are located in the south of the country in the Zagros region and in terms of mines in the non-metallic sedimentary zone.

Although Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad are not among the richest areas in the country in terms of mining, there are good potentials in this area.

So far, seventy-five mining licenses with an investment volume of more than 3,300 billion rials have been issued in this province.

There are currently forty-one active mines employing 400 people in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad.

 Seventy-five mining licenses in the province have a definite reserve of more than 1,500 million tons, and the annual nominal extraction capacity of these mines is about five and a half million tons.

The actual annual extraction of active mines is more than two and a half million tons.

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad have a population of seven hundred and twenty-three thousand, about forty-four percent of whom live in villages.

* IRNA