Gol Gohar industrial mine

The mining area of Gol Gohar is one of the most important active mining hubs in the Middle East, with rich iron ore mines, which has many capabilities to become a large and competitive region in Iran and even the world. These mineral deposits are located in Kerman province and 50 km southwest of Sirjan city. The existing works and the remaining excavations at the deposit indicate that this deposit was identified and exploited in the past centuries. The approximate age of a sample of slag from old furnaces that used Gol Gohar ore is estimated to be around 900 years. In the contemporary period, the exploration and search operation of Gol Gohar iron ore project was started in 1348 by the private Iran Barit company, and then continued with the cooperation of the Japanese Maroubani company, and from 1353 it was handed over to the Iranian National Steel Company. Gol Gohar iron ore deposit is located in six separate anomalies with a total reserve of about 1200 million tons in an area approximately 10 km long and approximately 4 km wide. The exploitation of mineral mass number one is the responsibility of Gol Gohar Mining and Industrial Company, a large part of which has been extracted.