Recent surveys have shown that the supply of coal in Persia is practically unlimited, and that it can be produced and sold at the pit’s mouth at 5s a ton. At present coal mines are worked atHir, about fifty miles from thecapital,and iron is believed toexist in large quantities in the immediate neighbourhood of the coal fields. At present iron is produced near Teheran, where the ore contains seventy per cent of metal. Copper and lead deposits also occur in the Erburz mountains, and are being developed, while borax, asbestos, manganese, and mercury ores, and wells of naphtha and petroleum, also form important additions to the mineral resources of the country. —Industries,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8968, 19 April 1890, Page 2
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