Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 25
By Fatih Karimov– Trend:
Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO), a major state-owned holding company active in the mining sector in Iran has unveiled list of some projects open for foreign finance.
The list includes various mining sector projects with total investment opportunity of 5500 million euro.
IMIDRO has 8 major companies and 55 operational subsidiaries active in steel, aluminium, copper, cement and mineral exploitation fields.
No. |
Project Name |
Location |
Type(state-run/private) |
Product |
Capacity
(tons) |
Investment (million euro) |
1 |
Graphite electrode plant |
Ardakan, Yazd provice |
State-run |
Graphite electrode |
30,000 |
258 |
2 |
Petroleum coke plant |
Arvand Free Zone, Khuzestan province |
State-run |
Petroleum coke |
200,000 |
950 |
3 |
Equipping Parvadeh No.4 Coal Mine |
South Khorasan Province, Tabas |
State-run |
Concentrate coal |
450,000 |
108 |
4 |
Persian Gulf’s Alumina Project |
Parsian Free Zone, Hormozgan province |
State-run |
Alumina |
1,600,000 |
850 |
5 |
Bouxite plant |
Guinea, Conakry |
Joint project between the two countries |
Bouxite |
4,000,000 |
600 |
6 |
Alumina production projects from Nephelyn Syenite |
Sarab, East Azerbaijan provice |
State-run |
Alumina |
200,000 |
850 |
7 |
Toroud Brine Exploitation and Equipping Reserves |
Toroud, Semnan province |
State-run |
Potash Magnesium Chloride |
60,000 150,000 |
104 |
8 |
Aluminium smelter unit |
Chabahar, Sistan and Baluchestan province |
State-run |
Aluminium |
350,000 |
1200 |
9 |
Aluminium Billet plant |
Parsian Free Zone, Hormozgan province |
State-run |
Aluminium billet |
50,000 |
30 |
10 |
Aluminium flat products unit |
Parsian Free Zone, Hormozgan province |
State-run |
Aluminium flat products |
160,000 |
550 |
Total |
5500 |