TEHRAN- 8th Iran Stone Exhibition (IRSE 2016) on natural stones, mine, machinery and equipment will be held at the Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds from July 18 to 21, IRIB news reported.

The four-day event will host 210 Iranian and 40 foreign companies from Italy, South Korea, China, Turkey and some other countries, according to Hossein Ja’farian, the spokesman of the exhibition.

 Annual building-stone exports at $400m

Also, Malek Rahmati, the secretary of Iran Stone Association, put the worth of country’s annual exports of building stones at $400 million.

He said 15 million tons of stones have been produced in Iran over the past four years, creating 380,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Iran holds more than seven percent of the world’s total mineral reserves, including 60 types of minerals, Rahmati said.

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