Mehdiabad Mining Complex Contract To Close in February

In an interview with reporter of Minews, Bahram Shakouri responded to the about the latest status of signing the contract of Mehdiabad Minining Complex explained: last time IMIDRO announced that the contract would be signed and closed in Fajr (February) that is in the upcoming one or two weeks.

He added: "Mobin Consortium is ready to sign this contract and even some things related to the project have been done before signing the contract. The Consortium has already submitted the warranty and we have signed the contract from our side. Determine the status of the tailings, the type of technology used and the negotiations with the owners of the capital and also to a certain extent financers. A budget for the implementation of the project has been abandoned. In fact a series of tasks that must be performed in a one-year period of studies conducted so far was. Somehow we're still a couple of steps forward and is now looking forward to the signing of the contract.

In response to other questions in the meantime news reporter that the presence of mehdiabad project Glencore where and whether the company is a new sampling of this mine is done or not? Explained earlier examples of mine IMIDRO Mehdi-Abad, to testing and analytics to Glencore was given that Glencore tests according to specified does not have the processing capability of this oxide mine and result in economic work on it. This means 50% save destroys mine and finally the whole project could have been affected.

Shakouri continued: according to the expert team at Mobin Consortium like Dr. Hasani and others that we on the set of clean with years of experience have the mine geology and its studies have done, this is a team that is not mine but the oxide forms of forms of reagents. The result was supposed to be Glencore, and finally IMIDRO Consortium with samples after each monitoring contracts and with samples taken from the mine that correctly represents, the tests again. Because oxidized consists of four sections and is not to be a sample representing the four parts is the result of each sample should be taken four sections and finally with the samples and monitoring with all the necessary tests on lab and is also a consortium now Glencore IMIDRO results go and meet with the supervision of the laboratory test. Its results should also accept both three sides.

Mobin Road Construction and Mining Company CEO said: we have prepared all requirements and lastly after signing the contract, the first thing to be done is testing and sampling of the mine and its results should be accepted by IMIDRO because its results can change the whole route of investment in the mine.