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Small Mines Constitute 98.3% of the Country’s Mines

Small Mines Constitute 98.3% of the Country’s Mines
“98.3% of the country’s mines are small mines, which constitute 85% of employment and 65% of the country’s production in mining section.” Said the CEO of Iran Minerals Production and Supply Co.

 

 

 

According to the Mining Investment Insurance Corporation’s public relations, Vajih-Allah Jafari said in a TV Show called “Titr-E-Emshab” (the name of the show means ‘Tonight’s Headline’ in Persian) which was aired on July 28th, 2019, on Islamic Republic of Iran News Network, “there are 10000 mines with production licenses in the country. 50% of them are active at the moment, while more than 46% are inactive, and 2% of them are being equipped at the moment. Most of the mines are construction mines, and non-metal. We 820 metal mines and we have 44% of non-metal mines and the rest produce construction material and rubble trench.”
Pointing out that the renovation and reactivating small mines project is being monitored constantly monitored in order to solve the current problems, the CEO of Iran Minerals Production and Supply Co. added: “It has been decided in monitoring this project that the right decisions should be made according to the received information.”
 
Challenges’ Percentage
“We monitored 5 provinces last year,” Continued the CEO, “and now we are monitoring 8 provinces, and we’ll probably be able to monitor other provinces at the end of this year. Among the 22 mines which have been constantly monitored by Iran Minerals Production and Supply Co., 34% are suffering from market liquidity, and 13% have the minerals with low fineness. This is while 11% of these mines have problems in their processing units and 5% of them have problems in market and 2% have technical problems and lack the technology needed for their mines. One of our solutions to these problems is to integrate these small mines and construct a well-equipped processing unit which they can all use, and create the market for their production. The other solutions, however, includes building the foundation which is the government’s responsibility. This means that we have to provide the situation in a way that these mines would be presented to the investors and mineral users units. The government can help with the finances, building the foundation, or at least provide guarantees of sale for the miners and the investors.”
About the data collection approaches in other provinces’ mines, the CEO noted: “Through correspondence, the organizations of Industry, Mine and Trade in different provinces have introduced their representatives. We have also activated the provinces Mine Houses to bring us the connection we need, and they have also introduced their representatives. We had many meeting with the committees and could get more statistics about the mines in different provinces.”
 
3 Principles in Reviving Inactive Mines
“These principles are investor, investee, and specialized committees.” Said Mr. Jafari, pointing out the 3 main principles of reactivating the inactive mines,” the government’s role in this, is to facilitate and help, to provide the conditions needed to revive and reactivate these mines. One of the steps we took for this, was to create a mutual participation between big and small mines in a way that both big and small mines can support each other. We did this so that the small mines could supply the big mines with minerals and in return, with the help of the Mining Investment Insurance Corporation, reach the point where they can receive facilities through the big mines’ credits. The conference ‘Expanding the Production through Reviving, Reactivating and Developing Small Mines’ would be held on Tuesday, according to the request from the Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, to bring about more cooperation between the related sections and finally reaching our goals.”
 
Conducting a Part of the Market Liquidity towards Developing Small Mines
“The Wall Street Journal has estimated Iran’s natural resources about 27.3 trillion dollars,” said Mr. Bahram Shakuri in this program, the chairman of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce’s Mine and Mining Industry Commission, “according to this, we are number 5 in the world regarding natural sources, which also include mines. If we reach the 1404 Goals (Year 2025), which the statistics show is not out of reach, the Mine section will then cover 60% of the oil incomes. The Mine Section has a very high potential, and the government and the Supreme Leader have also pointed this out. This section can have play a great part in employment and production.”
Pointing out the current challenges in mining section, the chairman of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce’s Mine and Mining Industry Commission continued: “among the problems of the mines which produce construction stones, is the lack of a market for selling their products. In the reviving and reactivating small mines council we try to join the people now active in the world’s marketing to these mines, and so reactivate them. One of the other problems, is the lack of the market liquidity. One of our solutions for this, is to encourage the large mining industry companies, which need raw material, to buy these small mines’ products beforehand, and so activate them. There are also some mines which need a little financial help to be reactivated again and the Mining Investment Insurance Corporation can help with that. In the reviving and reactivating small mines project we need exact and detailed information on the mines’ location, their supplies, problems and challenges. One of our goals in this project is to guide the country’s 1800000 billion Tomans towards profitable productive activities, such as mining.”
 
 

 

 

Aug 4, 2019 13:09
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