Twenty stagnant mines are being rehabilitated in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Head of Industry, Mining and Trade Organization Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad: Twenty stagnant and closed mines will be rehabilitated and activated in this province by the end of this year.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Salar Hosseinpour stated: There are forty-three active mines in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad.
He added: "According to the plans, 20 mines will be closed and in some of these mines, the capacity of Imidro (Organization for Development and Renovation of Mines and Mining Industries of Iran) will be used to build infrastructure."
The head of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Industry, Mining and Trade Organization stated: The most important mines of this province include bauxite, phosphate, gypsum, lime, sand and celestine.
Hosseinpour emphasized: At present, about four hundred and fifty people are directly working in the mines of the province.
He said: "With the operation of these twenty mines, the number of job creation will increase significantly this year."
According to Hossein Kalantari, the governor of the province, no studies had been carried out on the province's mines until previous years, but now detailed information studies are being carried out on 7,000 square kilometers of its mineral zones, ie about 50% of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad.
Most of the mines in the province are located in Boyer-Ahmad city (twenty-two cases) and most active mines are located in Gachsaran city (twelve cases).
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad in the south of the country are among the regions of Zagros basin and in terms of mines are in non-metallic sedimentary basin.
Although Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad are not among the richest regions of the country in terms of mines, but there are good potentials in this area.
So far, seventy-five mining exploitation licenses with an investment volume of more than three thousand and three hundred billion rials have been issued in this province.
This number in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad has 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 people, about forty-four percent of whom live in villages.
* IRNA
