Countdown for Mehdiabad Mine Extraction Operation/Iran Private Sector to Launch World Largest Lead and Zinc

 

According to Donyayemadan, as Zanjan Angoran Mine is finishing its deposits, Yazd Mehdiabad lead and zinc Mine will become the largest lead and zinc producer of Iran. The stripping operations of the mine began in April 2015 so it will replace Angoran for domestic needs and even for export because it has 160 million tonnes of lead and zinc deposit. 

Such a decision has been made more seriously after global market studies results indicated that reserves of large zinc mines of the world are also facing the end of their reserves, making the supply side weak. Now Mehdiabad contains most of the world zinc deposits, both on the surface and in depth.

Fourty-five million tons of the mine deposits are lead and zinc oxide and save 116 million-ton mine lead and zinc mine sulphide Mehdi-Abad is the Cutie on the 7.3 percent and is estimated to be 2.3% srpsh Cutie. This is in addition to the reserves, while lead and zinc, barite (barium sulfate) as well as the storage of more than 10 million tons in the mining heartland of the fallen there.

Mehdiabad project mine development and renovation organization, years in the mines as a stagnant project was named because it was based on speculation that after the Australian company Union joint company ommani (Mawarid), a new chapter for the investment in the mine the time sheet but because international relations constraints in the country's economy was an Australian company, could not transfer Your financial power with ease, and it was not a remedy except that Australia is a partner in the mine company ommani mehdiabad.

The presence of the private sector, while this is mine started to work with the presence of such partnerships was also the feet and more than a decade the project investment IMIDRO was put on the waiting list until the Ferial mostofi, Chairman of Karun KDD plain 48 percent of shares in the company on IMIDRO Mehdi-Abad in line with the implementation of the general principle of the 44 of the Constitution and policies through the winning of the privatization agency auctions To a bright future for this mineral range figure. Because he had been earlier in the provincial plan for steel shape presenter seven financial impasse the plan of a Chinese company that supplies the finance after opening several credit schemes, many of these factories produced up to this point enters the circuit or on the verge of production.

 

According to reporters from news economy expedition lead and zinc mehdiabad Yazd, according to the experts, engineers and mining and mineral enrixhment on extensive planning studies have done, because of major delays the launch of this project, the process of obtaining the necessary permissions infrastructure including water, electricity and the environment.

Getting the contract signed on the water made this mine have been on at the same time that years of signing the license the exploitation of the environment subject to signing the mine water supply has been Mehdi Abad until water-supply contract with Mehdi Abad Yazd regional water company signed and finally was put mine water effluent, water supply of refined Yazd.

Operation of the tailings in mining mehdiabad these days with many speed goes ahead and although 25 years is at the discretion of the private investor, but the goal is that the investor based on the earlier operation to finish mine tailings and extraction and utilization of lead and zinc will reach arrived.

However, since the current state of the world market in metals and minerals prices have reached a critical point and the reduction of all the markets of all countries affected by the data seems to manage the Affairs of this mine on the basis of market studies is in progress and it is a major shareholder of the mine says 100 factory 100-thousand tons of bullion and concentrates with an investment of 700 million, placed on the agenda to In addition to supplying the domestic, bullion market countries strengthen export intensity and many industries in the world, Iran's main customer.

The presence of Chinese and Italian groups and hence to prepare the talks before mine in order to purchase plant equipment with companies specializing in the field of construction of mills on the bullion and concentrates including China ENFI co. as the largest non-ferrous mining company in this country that is currently doing the basic design lead and zinc factory Mehdi-Abad, and the time of construction of the plant is considered a month of 36.

But the interesting thing is that these days that Chinese and Italian staff entered the mine, the status of the progress this past year than mine so much growing up and changing the assessment. They are to make a joint venture or partnership in this project is the result of effective factors of production and the market, the two sides reviewed.

Up to this point on the company m. 94 of April with the deployment of heavy mining machinery involves more than 10 device 100 device and several tons of excavator, forklift, loader, and bulldozers and other machinery for the mining site, Mehdi side more than 3 million cubic meters of tailings before operation operation to perform according to the progress of the operation and the program is in progress and is parallel to the construction of the factory mining operations are also in progress.

now that this mining project is livened up with private sector investment and obstacles have been removed by persistent follow-ups by this private company, the Government is going to take a big test because the success of th private sector in this project will cause other interested investors to invest in the country's metals mines and these types of investments.