Do not write a single prescription for all minerals
Chairman of the Mines and Mineral Industries Commission of the Iran Chamber: Avoiding the sale of raw materials is emphasized by all mining activists, but a single prescription should not be written for all minerals.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Bahram Shakoori at the 18th General Assembly of the Iranian Mining Engineering Organization at the Spinas Hotel in Tehran added: "Today, in the field of decorative stones and facades, seven to nine percent of exports are made, the value of which is three hundred to three hundred per year." And it is fifty million dollars, while Italy, one of the major exporters in this sector, sells 22% of its production raw.
He added: "Today, if decorative stones and facades are not extracted and no currency is obtained, the economic value of decorative stones and facades will be lost in the coming years with the growing trend of using artificial stone, ceramic tiles or increasing the consumption of glass and composite."
Shakoori pointed out: "Today, with the conditions of exploitation of decorative stone mines and facades, there is a reserve for three to four hundred years, and planning must be done in accordance with the current conditions of the world."
The head of the Iran Chamber of Mines and Mineral Industries Commission said: "Now, in the field of low-grade hematite iron ore, which can not be consumed in the country, despite its use in cement factories, there is a surplus of consumption, they must become currency and capital in the country."
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, last year the total mineral extraction from five thousand six hundred active mines reached four hundred and ten million tons.
According to Shakoori, today half of the country's mineral reserves are extracted, while the standard for this figure in the world is three to five percent.
Previous statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade show that the amount of mineral reserves identified in the country is fifty-seven billion tons, of which about thirty-seven billion tons are definite and the rest are probable.
The head of the Iran Chamber of Mines and Mineral Industries Commission explained: "Studies show that the share of the mining sector in GDP is less than one to one percent, but the value of the product is twenty to thirty percent belongs to the mining sector."
Iran ranks 15th in the world in terms of identified mineral reserves.
* IRNA
