Iran to Use Knowledge-Based Firms to Strengthen Copper Industry
Based on a law to increase the knowledge-based production, the National Copper Table will be established with the aim of pursuing specialized and systematic issues related to the copper industry.
Since Iran has a 6% share of the world's mineral reserves and a 0.1% copper production rate in the world, it is necessary to establish the table in cooperation with the copper industry and the Iranian Vice-Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy.
This will also provide the basis for the commercialization of copper industry, and the value chain of copper and other mining industries will develop.
Iran enjoys the world’s second largest copper reserves. Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex, one of the largest industrial and open-pit complexes in the world, is located in the suburbs of Rafsanjan county, in the Iranian Southern province of Kerman, where the Zagros Mountain Range nears its final destination, enjoying a huge reservoir of about 1 billion 200 million tons of sulfur ore.
In Sarcheshemeh mining complex, after mining and exploitation of the mines, high grade ore products and copper products such as cathode, slab, billet and eight mm wire are produced.
Production units of Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex is made up of the mine itself, concentrator, smelter, refinery, foundries and leaching.
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