The issuance of Semnan mineral discovery certificate increased by 30% last year
Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Industries of Semnan Province Industry, Mining and Trade Organization: The issuance of mineral discovery certificates in the province last year increased by 30% compared to the previous year.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, Mohammad Forouhar added: 39 new discovery certificates with a variety of metallic and non-metallic minerals, including carcass, manganese, copper, industrial soil, marl, salt, barite, and fluorine, were issued in the province last year.
He reminded: the issuance of this number of mineral discovery certificates in Semnan province last year increased by 30% compared to the same period of the previous year.
He said: "This number of discovery certificates with a reserve tonnage of 60 million tons and an operating cost of about 91 billion rials was issued in the mining sector of Semnan province, which in terms of operating costs compared to 1398 increased by about 107 percent."
The Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Industries of the Industry, Mining and Trade Organization of Semnan Province stated: Last year, 79 licenses and exploration certificates were issued in the mining sector of the province, of which 40 were licenses and 39 were exploration certificates.
In Semnan province, there are more than 600 mines with exploitation licenses with an annual extraction capacity of more than 21 million tons of minerals and the proven extraction reserve of these mines is about 670 million tons.
