The need to review the amount of government salaries of mines
Chairman of the Mining Committee of the Iranian Stone Association: Today, due to the problems facing miners and the corona crisis, which is fueling economic pressures, the government rights of the mines need to be adjusted.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Aziz Mirzaeian stated: Now miners and owners of processing units have made the most important request to the mining department, to review government rights. The Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade has previously provided statistics; Last year, over one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one billion tomans of government salaries were taken from active mines. The statistics of this ministry show that in the current situation, there are more than five thousand and six hundred active mines in the country and about four thousand and four hundred. The mine is inactive.
Mirzaeian added: The uneconomicization of some mines (decline in reserves and grade of mines) and the issue of VAT extension to mines in the last three years, problems caused by coronary changes in exchange rates, a sharp decline in demand for minerals in the domestic and foreign markets It makes it necessary to adjust the government rights of the mines.
He said: "The issue of issuing instructions to collect fines for overdrafts from mines, because it has no legal basis, is another problem for the exploiters of this sector." Annually, in the nineties, an average of four hundred million tons of minerals have been extracted from the country's active mines, which according to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Construction Materials Trade have a share of sixty to sixty-five percent in this regard.
The head of the mentioned committee pointed out: the need to deal with the problem of overdraft from active mines requires continuous supervision by the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, and this issue can be implemented at the national level.
He said: "Dealing with miners who can not pay government salaries on time, in the form of cutting quotas for fuel and explosives needs to be reviewed and should be considered within the framework of the mining law."
Mirzaeian expressed his hope that the Ministry of Industry, within the framework of improving the business environment in the mining sector, would take steps to amend the contradictory laws in order to achieve legal rights.
He explained: "The lack of transparency in the definitions of natural resources and its spread to the entire area of the country, which includes deserts, will lead to the flight of investors from the mining sector and should be eliminated as soon as possible." Difficult to take action. The Ministry of Industry expects to increase mining by about 30 percent this year, from last year to 410 million tons.
Mirzaeian believes; The intervention of the executive bodies in the field of mining activity has been extended to the amount of fuel distribution among the exploiters, while this is a function of the approved exploitation plan and the amount of fuel consumption of each machine is predicted.
According to this report, Iran is in the tenth place in the world in terms of diversity with the discovery of sixty-eight types of minerals, and with the identification of about fifty-seven billion tons of mineral reserves, of which thirty-seven billion tons are definite and the rest are possible. It is appropriate to.
* IRNA
