Annual extraction of one million tons of minerals from Neishabour mines
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Head of Industry, Mining and Trade Department of Neishabour city: Up to one million tons of minerals are extracted annually from the mines of Neishabour city.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Mohammad Reza Purkavian stated: At present, there are sixty-eight mines with exploitation licenses in Neishabour, of which only twenty-three are active mines and forty-five are inactive.
He announced the nominal annual extraction capacity of sixty-eight mines as 1,623,150 tons and stated: The definitive reserve of these sixty-eight mines is seventy-six million tons.
The head of the Department of Industry, Mines and Trade of Neishabour city added: "Currently, the direct employment created is one hundred and sixty people. Also, out of sixty-eight mines, eight mines are processed in the place of those mines."
Purkavian said: Neishabour city has nineteen different types of minerals including iron, gold, mineral pumice, salt, limestone, decorative stones (marble), industrial soils, gypsum, chromite, manganese, carcass stone, silica, sand, chrysocola , Pozzolan, silicon, lead and zinc, copper ore, etc.
* ISNA
