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Jalal Abad Iron Ore Mine
Zarand Jalal Abad mine is located in 38 km from North West of Zarand Township, which is in 85 km from North West of Kerman City. Zarand is connected to Bafgh, Yazd & Isfehan Cities via main road & railway. The nearest rural community to this mine is Jalal Abad village, which is located in 7 km from South East of the mine. The distance between this mine and the first train station is 51km.
Because of the wind from desert and poor moist sea winds, the rainfall is low and duration of it is too short; the temperature changes in Zarand are +- 17 ° and weather moisture is 3-5 percent in summer. Also the annual rainfall in this region is about 164 mm. The plant covering is too paltry and only some desert shrubs can be seen.
Zarand is one of the seven important and known Iron Ore mines in Iran which has a noticeable storage.
All the studies about Iron Ore mines in central Iran started in 1309 and later in 1317 to 1348 the studies on this specific mine took place.
The capacity of Jalal Abad mine is estimated to be 200.4 M Tons, which 20.6 M Tons of it is oxide high grade iron ore with 55.7% of iron, 0.15% sulfor and 91.6 MT of it is high grade Magnetite Iron Ore with 53.47% Iron & 1.41% Sulfor; Finally 88.2 MT of this capacity belongs to low grade iron ore with 23.57% iron and 1.17% Sulfor. The Phosphor percentage in this mine is also low with the average of 0.06%.
The client o the project is IMPAS Co. and Mobin has a 6.4 MT contract with this co. Mobin has started its work since 2006 as an overburdening & extracting contractor in this mine.
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