Iran plans $15 billion of investment to boost its copper production in the next five years, that will increase exports of the strategic metal to more than $10 billion from the current $1.7 billion, Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade Reza Fatemi-Amin says.
A gold mine in central Isfahan produced 223 kg of the precious metal in the eight months since the start of the Persian year in mid-March, its managing director says.
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