LONDON, June 28 (IranMania) - Head of Khorasan Razavi Industries and Mines Department has announced that six new cement factories are being built in the province and they will become operational during March 2008-2009.
According to ILNA, Seyyed Hossein Ahmadi said at a press conference concurrent with the Industries and Mines Week, that two cement factories will become operational by March 2008 and two others in the following year, and the rest in 2009.
According to the official, these factories will produce enough cement to increase the production capacity from the current 450 tons per day to 14,000 tons.
He further said that the first gold refinement unit of Zarmehr Gold Factory will begin operation by the end of this summer.
On the water shortage crisis in the region, he said that the industrial sector uses only two% of the water while 92% goes to the agricultural sector.
He explained that last year?s mineral explorations led to the discovery of 80 mln tons of reserves and permits were issued to exploit 116 mln tons of proven reserves. During the same period, 570 exploration and exploitation permits were issued for projects involving investment of 5,210 bln rials plus the capacity to create jobs for 63,000 people.
Source : http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=52615&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
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