The importance of recognizing the capacities of the mining sector
Furthermore, it should be said that the investment in the mining sector requires knowledge of this area, first we must know the capacities of the mining sector and get acquainted with the resources and statistics available in the world and Iran.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, in the years of sanctions, up to forty-five percent of the country's export market share has been allocated to the mining and minerals sector. This sector currently accounts for nearly ten billion dollars of the country's exports of minerals and mineral industries, which includes twenty-five percent.
Iran is one of the most potential regions in the world in terms of potential mineral potential. Our country ranks 15th in the world in terms of mineral resources and ninth in terms of mineral production. Our country has twelve mines in the world rankings, which include five iron mines, two copper mines, two lead and zinc mines and two gold deposits.
In the meantime, Iran has about eight and one known world resources, six percent of copper resources, five and three percent of lead and zinc, five and one percent of coal, two percent of iron ore and twenty-four types of metallic minerals and thirty-six Fifty-nine non-metallic materials of the world are known in our country.
The problem, of course, is that weak statistics are a serious challenge to mining investment. Most of the statistics we use are from the years 96-95. In this regard, we hope that relevant groups, including the Organization of the Engineering System, will enter and resolve this issue. In the first ten months of 1395, Iran exported about five and four billion dollars and in 1396 about five and a half billion dollars in mineral exports, which today has reached about ten billion dollars.
Due to the fact that the country's minerals are more concentrated in the four provinces of the country, as a result, these provinces have a ninety-two percent share in the export sector. So far, seven percent of the country's area has been explored and the value of mines and mining industries has increased from less than one percent in 1389 to about six percent in 1396.
Also, the value of mineral exports has increased from two and eight billion dollars in 1390 to seven and nine billion in 1396. Of course, in 1398, this figure has not increased much.
It should be said that the investment in the mining sector requires knowledge of this area, first we must know the capacities of the mining sector and get acquainted with the resources and statistics available in the world and Iran.
Fortunately, the Geological Atlas has been prepared by the Geological Survey of the country and shows the reserves and deposits well. The country's investment opportunities in the mining sector must be considered. The richness and abundance of mineral ores and minerals, the existence of sea routes for export, skilled and trained labor, access to cheap energy, mineral poverty of neighboring countries are all factors that create investment opportunities in exploration, extraction and processing in Iran. has brought.
Mechanized coal mining, the use of brines for the extraction of potassium, magnesium and lithium, and the like can also be mentioned as priorities in the investment sector.
Seyed Sohrab Hosseini - Vice Chairman of the Industry and Mining Commission of the Entrepreneurial Youth Association of Tehran Chamber of Commerce - Samat
