This plan includes 13 priorities, to inform active miners from research priorities and render a plan to encourage investors to invest in this sector.
These priorities are :
1. Modern methods of exploration, extraction and mineral processing
2. Localization and know-how transfer
3. Production and extraction of REE
4. Coal research projects
5. Using waste and slag to extract valuable elements
6. Molybdenum,Tungsten and Magnesium related researches
7. Titanium researches
8. Graphite Electrodes researches
9. Energy consumption optimization
10. Construction of mineral processing equipments
11. Create and increase of production efficiency
12. Refractory minerals researches
13. HSE projects in mine and mining industries sector
According to this announcment if miners with approval of Iranian ministry of Industry,Mine and Trade in line with these priorities contract with universities, they will be exempted from 10 percent of state law of mines.