Major Iranian producers of minerals and mining products exported 9.99 million tons worth $2.16 billion during the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New data released by the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) show that major Iranian producers of minerals and mining products exported 9.99 million tons worth $2.16 billion during the first two months of the current Iranian year, registering a 57% and 20% year-on-year rise in tonnage and value respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steel manufacturing chain products (iron ore, semi-finished and finished steel) topped the list of exports in terms of value with an aggregate of $1.09 billion, followed by iron ore pellets worth $200.9 billion and copper and related products worth $135.6 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In terms of tonnage, cement and clinker topped the list with 1.99 million tons. Steel came next with 1.98 million tons, followed by pellet with 1.84 million tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exports of direct-reduced iron (DRI) saw the biggest jump in terms of value (615,839%) to reach $54.4 million, followed by iron ore concentrate with $106.5 million (up 2,076%) and iron ore granule with $27 million (up 680%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exports of DRI had the highest growth in terms of weight (407,052%) with 203,580 tons. It was followed by titanium (up 27,1238%) with 10 tons and iron ore concentrate (up 2,247%) with 1.17 million tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMIDRO\u2019s statistics pertain to heavyweight producers only and does not take into account exports by small-scale mining companies. Therefore, overall exports from Iran are higher than the figures cited above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IMIDRO report also shows imports related to the mining industry and mineral products stood at 751,000 tons worth $726 million during the same period registering a 30% increase in weight and a 17% rise in value compared with last year\u2019s same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The steel category also topped the list of imports in terms of value with $241.2 million, followed by coal and coke worth $114.3 million and ferroalloys worth $50.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coke and coal had the highest volume of imports in terms of weight with 262,570 tons, followed by steel with 190,230 tons and alumina powder with 72,160 tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The value of lead imports saw the biggest jump (up 1,638%) with $3.4 million. It was followed by mica (1,607%) worth $300,000 and precious metals and stones (1,546%) worth $100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mica products also had the highest growth of imports in terms of weight (94,394%) with 370 tons, followed by lead (6,979%) with 1,890 tons and chrome (202%) with 1,540 tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heavyweight Iranian producers of minerals and mining products exported 48.68 million tons worth $12.23 billion in the last Iranian year that ended March 20 to register a 3.5% rise in tonnage, but a 7.6% fall in value compared with the year before, according to IMIDRO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imports related to the mining industry and mineral products stood at 4.48 million tons worth $4.99 billion in fiscal 2022-23 registering a 3.9% increase in weight and a 27.5% rise in value compared with fiscal 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Major Iranian producers of minerals and mining products exported 9.99 million tons worth $2.16 billion during the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21). New data released by the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) show that major Iranian producers of minerals and mining products exported 9.99 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n