According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, a meeting of miners across the country was held in the presence of Masoumeh Pashaei, Deputy Chairman of the Mines Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. In this meeting, first the demanders from the provinces of Khuzestan, Kerman, Isfahan, West and East Azerbaijan and Kurdistan expressed their views and concerns regarding the violations committed in the field of mining in the city of their residence.

The most important issues raised by the miners were:

1- Lack of attention of miners to the restoration of the natural texture of the area around the mines during and after the extraction operation.

2- Ignoring the pollution and environmental effects caused by the exploitation of mines and not trying to compensate for these destructive effects that have led to various diseases such as cancer for miners and local residents.

3- Defects in the laws and regulations related to mining, including the fact that the responsibility for environmental research and laboratory sampling has been assigned to the miners, and the conflict of interests in this section has caused the miners to use the results of environmental assessments in different ways. Delayed or labeled with laboratories to present distorted results of the environmental pollution of the mine in operation to the relevant authorities.

4- Lack of attention to cyanide emissions during gold mining, including Qorveh mine in Kurdistan province and Andrian mine in Varzeqan city in East Azerbaijan, which has greatly increased the number of cancer deaths among the natives of these areas.

5- Widespread violations in the mines of Kerman province and the creation of a family corruption network, especially in the Gol Gohar mine in Sirjan city and the Midok copper mine in Shahrbabak city.

6- Extensive environmental violations in the field of ornamental stone mines of Joshaghan Qali in Kashan city and 16 times more encroachment on the environment of the region than the legal permits issued for the exploitation of the mine.

7- Abusing legal loopholes to exceed the allowable extraction and stated in the mining exploitation license and the occurrence of huge differences of several tons in the amount of exploitation of mines, especially gold mines.

8- Lack of government support for the protesters and securing the environmental protests in order to provide the ground for security clashes with the protesters.

9- The negligence of regulatory institutions, especially the Environmental Organization, to the destructive environmental effects of mining activities for indigenous residents and sometimes the interaction of these institutions with miners.

Following the meeting, Masoumeh Pashaei, a member of the Industries Commission and Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Mines, who was the special guest of the meeting, said after hearing the explanations of miners from all over the country: "One of the reasons why it is easier to penetrate different parts of the country is That is, relationships are governed by rules. I have a document stating that in one of the Shasta mines, the subdivision of which is a large factory and extremely profitable, is the head of the person who distributed the newspapers of the hypocrites in 1982 and 1983, and surprisingly, such a person has been in a holding for 18 years. Has been a great CEO. The question is which manager do we have who can be the CEO of a holding company for 18 consecutive years?

"Unfortunately, it seems that we also pay for the enmity of our enemies," he said. "As it has been proven in previous years, part of the cost of the Manoto network came from one of the embezzlements inside the country." Unfortunately, the root of such issues, which leads to influence, goes back to the dominance of relationships in devices instead of rules. This relationship is such that, for example, the enemy comes and works on my representative families, and since I, the representative, act without examining my family records and only on the basis of family relations, in the end, this person grows and influences. I provide on different devices. Right now, when they want to deal with a person, he immediately says that the head of some commission is my family or that I support some minister. Then you see that some of these family networks are connected to hypocrites or foreign services through several intermediaries. Unfortunately, this is a problem in our system of governance. Therefore, we must accept that we first need to move towards institutionalizing meritocracy in the country's governing system.

** The key to the mining law reform plan in the parliament

Referring to the new plan of the Parliamentary Industries Commission, the Deputy Chairman of the Mining Committee of the Majles said: "The good news for the demanding friends present at this meeting is that the Industries Commission has recently introduced the plan to amend the articles of the Mining Law." Parliament, we are seriously pursuing this plan.

** Replacement of mineral revenues with oil revenues in the coming years

Criticizing the lack of phasing of the mines before exploitation, Pashaei stated: "This issue has left the contractors of the mines with no obligation to restore the environment around the mine after the end of exploitation." Our country is entering a period when mining revenues are replacing oil revenues. This issue has led to the formation of a mafia in this area. On the other hand, today we face a problem called public indifference to the national environment, and it is very surprising that unlike the years of holy defense, which for a single wajib of the country many martyrs But today we have attacked ourselves with the intention of destroying our environment, water and soil, and there is no public sensitivity to this issue.

He stressed: "Apart from the great wealth that mines bring to the country, it is necessary that part of the income from mining after the end of exploitation operations be spent on reviving the environment around those mines, an issue that is unfortunately completely ignored."

** The heavy turnover of mines has greatly increased the capacity for corruption in this area

Referring to the violations and corruption in the country's mines, the member of the parliamentary industry commission said: "The significant financial turnover of the mines has greatly increased the capacity for corruption in this area, which requires special attention from the government to transparency." Construction of affairs related to mines. Fortunately, all these issues have been considered in the plan to amend the Mining Law. For example, in one of the clauses of this plan, it is specified that exploiters who, due to mismanagement, cause disturbances in the environment, security, economy and mineral smuggling in the city and province, or with unprincipled use and without a plan Mining engineers to extract minerals or do not comply with the mining engineering plan or delay in compensating for damage to natural resources and the environment and indigenous residents will be dismissed with the approval of the Provincial Mines Council and the approval of the Supreme Council of Mines.

Pashaei added: "Also in the mentioned plan, security issues, especially in the field of handing over the mines to foreign exploiters, have been given special attention, so that the foreign exploiters of the mines should manage the mines exploited by competent internal managers and foreign technical experts appropriate to the mine." Operation approved by the Ministry of Industry, otherwise they will be expropriated.

At the same time, he said that we promise the claimants in the field of mining that we will consider this plan taking into account all the suggestions and opinions of experts, and said: "We ask the claimants present at the meeting to submit their suggestions." To announce the plan to amend the law on mines so that a complete and realistic plan can be put on the agenda of the parliament.

** A significant portion of mineral revenues should be spent on the development of the natives of the region

One of the important issues in this plan is that a significant part of the income from mining should be spent on development and increasing the welfare of the area where the mines are located and not that the share of the natives of these areas is just pollution. Resulting from mining operations.

Emphasizing that many of the country's problems, including corruption and inefficiencies in the mining sector, go back to the type of people's elections. Why should people vote for people who spray money during the elections without any hesitation? However, it has been proven that when a person spends 10 billion to enter the parliament, he will definitely not enter the parliament to serve the people. Therefore, the choice of the people has a decisive role in improving things.

At the end of his remarks, he said: "As a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Industries and Mines, I am ready to cooperate with the claimants who expressed their concerns in this meeting in order to organize the conditions governing the country's mines, but the condition for success and The result of the demands is the collection of accurate and convincing documents of the violations committed in this area.

* Tasnim