Iron Ore Production Nears 17m Tons

Tehran, Oct 18, IRNA -- Iran's eight major state-run companies have produced nearly 17 million tons of iron ore in the six months ending Sept. 22, a report by the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization said. Chadormalou Mining and Industrial Company, Iranian Central Plateau Iron Ore Mining Complex and iron ore companies of Golgohar, Markazi, Sirjan, Jalalabad, Mishdovan and Sangan helped the country to produce iron ore. Based on the report, the above companies produced 16,783,616 tons of iron ore in the same period of last year, and the figure witnessed a two-percent rise year-on-year. Golgohar, Chadormalou, Markazi and Sangan are Iran’s biggest iron ore mines and produced a major part of iron ore in the same period. The preliminary production of iron ore reached 25,679,897 tons during the period, which indicates an 11-percent rise, compared with the previous year’s figure that amounted to 23,089,489 tons. Iran has 5.1 billion tons of iron ore reserves, of which 2.8 billion tons are proven./end