Seventy percent of Hamedan mines were equipped with processing units
Deputy Minister of Mines of Hamedan Industry, Mining and Trade Organization: Seventy percent of the province's mines are equipped with processing units so that minerals are not supplied raw and provide more added value to the activists of this sector.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Mohammad Khaki pointed to the government's constructive measures to prevent the sale of raw minerals and added: "With the support provided, most of the materials extracted from the province's mines will be processed and then sent to the market."
He added: "With the support of the government in some mines such as sand, limestone, iron ore, feldspar and ferrosilicon, our processing cycle is almost complete and with the construction of two dolomite industrial units in this field, the processing cycle will be completed."
The Deputy Minister of Mines of the Hamedan Industry, Mining and Trade Organization stated: In the twelfth government, the capacity of the province's mines has increased from four million tons to ten million tons, and during this period we have witnessed a boom in the exploitation and extraction of minerals.
Khaki announced the issuance of seventy exploitation licenses during this period and continued: the number of licensed mines in the province has reached two hundred and eighty-three, most of which are active.
According to him, during this period, twenty-three billion and four hundred million tomans have been invested by the private sector in the mines of the province, which is unprecedented in its kind.
The Deputy Minister of Mines of the Industry, Mining and Trade Organization pointed out: One hundred and forty exploration licenses and sixty-one discovery certificates have been issued since 1396, which has a great impact on the diversity and increase of mineral discoveries.
Khaki said: in the last three years, twenty-six billion tomans of government salaries have been transferred to the treasury account by the miners of the province, which has increased significantly compared to before.
He pointed to the existence of thirty-two minerals in the province and added: "New areas are being added to the province, and by discovering them, we can promise the discovery of new copper and gold mineral talents to the people of Hamedan."
Iron, lead andalusite, sillimanite, feldspar, silica, garnet, dolomite, limestone, marble, travertine, gabbro, gray granite, hornfels, crondum, rose quartz, bentonite, pumice, gypsum, marl, shale, industrial soil, porcelain , Pegmatik, Mica, Arne granite, Clay, Copper, Green granite, Talc schist, Cordite are all types of minerals in Hamadan province.
Hamedan has about two billion tons of the country's 60 billion tons of explored reserves.
* IRNA