World’s Second Largest Lead-Zinc Mineral Deposit Extraction Operations Launch

 

The production and operation group for the extraction of the world's second largest lead-and-miner mineral deposit and the construction of lead and zinc processing factories began on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade at Mahdi Abad Bahadoran in Mehriz city of Yazd.

The Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce, during the visit to this project, stated that the three-fold increase in mineral exploration in the government of Tadbir and Omid said: "In this state, one hundred new mineral areas in the country have been defined, the exploitation of these zones has led to a change in the mining field. To be

Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, during the visit of Mehdi Abad Mehrez Lead and Zinc Mine, said: In order to exploit new mineral areas, domestic and foreign investors have been invited to explore explorations in this field and for more than two-thirds of these areas with investors The contract is closed

He also said that talks have been held with some specialized agencies, such as atomic energy, which has captured some mineral deposits of the country due to the extraction of uranium and prevented exploratory operations in such areas, and it is planned that these discoveries will be jointly organized by the Energy Organization Atomic action.

Nematzadeh reminded: the exterior's outspokenness of this understanding has not been revealed, since the discoveries of the deputy of the time are on, and without complete information, investment in the mine has a high risk and cost.

Regarding the lead and zinc mine and the Barit Mehdi Abad Mehriz, he said: Despite the long history of dumping the mine, the main reservoir has started over the past two quarters, and the speed of the operation has to go up, because by the end of the next year The concentrate of this mine is needed and we hope that the mine can be extracted and explored within the next four years.

The Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade said that with the presence of the private sector of industrial development accelerating, he stated: "The use of private sector capacity is one of the main policies of the government, and in this regard, investment in this sector is supported.

Nematzadeh emphasized the export-oriented production, saying recently that the plan for the largest refinery has been approved by the multi-million dollar export plan and decided to invest in it, which is one of the major measures in the field of export of refreshments.

He reminded that in some areas that there is a good market for exports, we do not have the right products for export, and on the contrary, in some cases, such as cement, tile and ceramics, there is a high production capacity, but due to regional conditions and stagnation in the housing sector, production Extensive and there is no export.

Nematzadeh said: "We only exported iron ore once, but now we are moving towards steel exports so that 4.8 million tons of steel were exported last year and this year it plans to export 6 to 7 million tons of this product." And now we can zinc steel, galvanize and export galvanized steel, which means more value added.

Nematzadeh stated: "Mine is the main source of baking of the country's industry, so we need to carefully utilize mineral resources with regard to environmental issues, technical issues, and so on that the anomaly and metal storage is properly utilized."

The manager of Mahdi Abad mineral complex said at the ceremony: Investor of the lead and zinc mine of Mehdi Abad, after the notification of the contract from April this year to equip the mine workshop, in which the machinery required for annual mining of 30 million tons Provided in the mine and preparatory activities for the start of mining operations and the construction of refineries.

Amin Safari added that the first year of the contract was named as a course for conducting engineering studies of factories and licensing for the transfer of infrastructure. At the same time, the pre-commissioning of operations was carried out, and it is planned to build processing plants within three years.

The official noted that although according to the contract, the investor must take 4 years to build the factories, but according to the plans provided by the investor in case of the realization and provision of infrastructure, the first phase of the factories at the beginning The year 98 will be operational and after 2 years we will see 200,000 tons of zinc concentrate in this complex.

Safari said the operation of the lead and zinc processing plants in Mahdi Abad, in addition to creating sustainable employment and supplying domestic and domestic lead factories, provides the opportunity for the country to lead the world market of lead and zinc in the market as one of the major producers.

He stated that the production capacity of the factories with the full commissioning of the phases of the plan is 800 thousand tons of zinc concentrate at least 35 percent as the main product, as well as the production of lead-silver concentrate as a by-product and the duration of the contract is 24 years.