TEHRAN, December 11 - Foreign countries have made $11 billion investment in Iran’s industry, mine and trade fields since 2013, said Managing Director of Iranian Ministry of Industry, Mine Trade Foreign Investment Afrouz Bahrami.
TEHRAN, August 22 - One of the Middle East’s biggest gold mine s in northwest Iran has beat quarterly production estimates, yielding 142,000 tonnes of recoverable reserves in the four months since March 20.
TEHRAN, July 31, YJC - An industrial city has been grown in Uzbekistan near the world's largest open pit gold mine . The prosperous city is called Zarafshan, which translates as 'gold spreading'. The city situated in the Kyzyl desert has the gold mine measuring 4 kilometers long, 2.5 kilometers wide and 600 meters deep. 50 million cubic meters of ore are extracted from the mine every year. Gold is extracted using the heap leaching method which has proven to be efficient, even for low grade ores. According to geologists, the gold resources in the mine will last for at least 200 years. Over the last years, gold has replaced cotton, a traditional Uzbek export, as the foreign trade priority and has diversified the country's economy.
TEHRAN, May 5, YJC - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei expressed deep sorrow over deaths of Iranian coal mine rs in the collapse of a mine in northeast of the country, calling for all necessary measures to rescue those trapped underground.
TEHRAN, May 4, YJC - At least 35 mine rs have lost their lives and scores of others been injured in a coal mine explosion in the northeastern Iranian province of Golestan.
Australia plans to hold exhibitions on mine and health sectors in regional countries, including Iran late March, Australian embassy said in a statement.
Tehran, YJC. Addressing a conference on mining and industry, President Rouhani said that what afflicted the sections during the 9th and 10th administrations should be considered as a fact of the past.