BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 14. The activity of 29 mines in South Khorasan province, located in the northeast of Iran, has been restored, since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2023) to January 13, 2024, said Ahmad Aryafar, chairman of the province’s Industry, Mine and Trade Organization, Trend reports.
He noted that these mines have a total reserve of 11 million tons of minerals.
Aryafar added that the revival of the mines has created 155 jobs and enabled the annual production of about 314,000 tons of minerals.
The chairman also specified that the mines that have restarted their activities include 13 bentonite, 3 industrial soil, 2 chromite, 2 granite, and 2 copper mines. The rest of the mines produce other kinds of minerals.
In general, South Khorasan Province has 741 mines with 6.9 billion tons of reserves, which account for 13 percent of Iran’s mineral wealth. The province’s mines have 57 varieties of minerals, such as coal, precious metals, iron ore, copper, dolomite, travertine and more.
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