Iran has identified more than 1,200 promising gold prospects, including a positive anomaly discovered recently in the Darreh Bidan of Yazd whose reserves have not been determined yet, a senior mining official has said. After tracing possible gold bearing zones in 21 provinces across the country, gold mines have been marked in 10 provinces, deputy ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran has found 1200 areas which are highly expected to have rich gold deposits. We have found gold-rich areas in Tiran district, Isfahan Province, but the exact amount of the gold deposits is still unclear, said Deputy Head of Iranian Geology and Mineral Explorations Organization Behrouz Borna. He also said that the country has ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Iran has inaugurated an iron ore concentrate plant, Tehran Times daily reported Sunday. The plant with the production capacity of two million tons per annum was launched on Saturday in the city of Zarand, southeastern Kerman Province, said the report. Some 570 million U.S. dollars have been invested by ...