Tehran,Nov11,IMIDRO_Deputy
Minister and Chairman of the Executive Board of IMIDRO, Mehdi Karbasian,
announced that by the year 2025, Iran mining sector required 20 B$
Investment.
According to the press release of public relations of IMIDRO, as one of
the major shareholder of big mining companies in Iran, IMIDRO is a
state-owned holding company, with activities from exploration to
exploitation and processing and Mining Industries. IMIDRO has
International subsidiaries in Germany, Italy, Russia, China, Kazakhstan,
Dubai and some other countries and can handle the projects and
contracts based on International regulations and Laws, Mehdi Karbasian
expressed in the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC
2015) in Australia.
Now, IMIDRO has 29 under development projects with approximately 9$B
investment, also by 2025, Iran mining sector required 20 B$ Investment,
he said.
At the present time, IMIDRO has several exploration projects (240,000
Square Kilometers) in different areas such as Sistan-Baluchistan,
Central and Southern Khorasan, Kerman, Western Azerbaijan, Ardebil, Fars
and Yazd provinces, Karbasian added.
Iran has potentials in mining sector such as rich mining reserves
mostly open pit, very big local and regional market, energy resources,
suitable infrastructure, access to international ports/sea, gateway to
Afghanistan/Mena/CIS, he continued.
Iran has 37B ton mining resources: with 1% Population and 7% of the
world, valued 700B$, 68 types of minerals, including Gold, Coal, Iron
Ore, Copper, Lead ,Zinc ,Chromium ,Barite, Salt, Gypsum, Molybdenum and
REE, Karbasian said.
Iran World ranking increased as part of IMIDRO activities in the
past15years. International Ranking of Iran in Steel, Cement, Copper,
Aluminum and Iron ore sectors are 14, 4, 20, 19 and 9 respectively, he
said.
IMARC 2015 is the International Mining and Resources Conference 10-12
November 2015 in Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia.