Despite the presence of seven perce of the world’s natural and mineral reserves in Iran, the budget for exploration of mineral reserves in the coury is only about one-teh of the world standard.
According to RCO News Agency, Reza Jadidi, Director General of the Office of Planning, Information Technology and Budget of the Geology and Mineral Exploration Organization of the coury, stated the above: the ultimate goal of exploring mineral reserves is to ideify the mineral assets of each coury, which is one of the most importa tools of the coury’s power in the field of natural and mineral resources. goes
He coinued: Iran is expected to be the origin of seven perce of the world’s natural and mineral reserves, and its ideification in the first stage requires the provision of financial and human resources and hardware, software, and brainware infrastructure. However, considering the challenge of expert manpower and the challenge of technology in the mining sector, the amou of budget and financial resources spe in the field of exploration of mineral reserves in the governme and developme sectors of Iran, including governmeal organizations and state-owned companies, is very small.
The director general of the planning, information technology and budget office of the coury’s geological and mineral exploration organization said: In the best possible case, in 1402, including the exploratory excavations of the developme organizations of state companies, the equivale of 83 million dollars was spe in the field of exploration of the coury’s mineral reserves, which includes the production of basic information. Geology and exploration is the ideification and search of mineral deposits, general discoveries and exploratory excavations, of which about 20 million dollars are the financial resources of the Geology and Mineral Exploration Organization and 63 million dollars are the financial resources of the Mines Developme and Renovation Organization and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
He further added: The standard review of mineral developing couries shows that their average expenditure in the field of exploration is close to one billion dollars, which shows that Iran has spe almost one-teh of the world standard for exploration, which according to the forecast of seven perce The natural and mineral reserves of the world in Iran, the share of governme resources including governmeal organizations and state companies in the exploration of mineral reserves is very small and causes the risk of private sector investme to increase.
According to the public relations of Geological and Mineral Exploration Organization of the coury, Jadi, the way out of these financial conditions is to reform and restore the financing system by the Program and Budget Organization and to reform the structure of state-owned companies through capital attraction or participation and said: implemeation These strategies are needed to provide financial resources for the exploration of the coury’s mineral reserves. Also, the revision of the annual budget and the budget of the governing, developme and state-owned companies is another way out of financial issues, which has not had an acceptable trend in rece years.
According to the Director General of the Office of Planning, Information Technology and Budget of the Geological and Mineral Exploration Organization of the coury, the exploration of mineral deposits includes four parts: ideification, prospecting and general and detailed exploration, which in developing couries and leading couries ideify and prospect because of the high risk and possibility Failure to do so is done by governmes and public and detailed explorations by developme sectors and the private sector.
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