Zavak mine currently supplies two oxide and sulfide copper products separately to industrialists in the field of mineral processing.
Unfortunately, due to the new production of copper ore privately in the country and also the incoherence of producers, this valuable mineral does not have its true value in the market, and sometimes some people knowingly or unknowingly in social networks by providing a price table far from reality, they are deliberately keeping the price of copper ore low, which has been the main reason for the inactivity of small copper mines in the country in recent years and has dealt a major blow to the country’s copper mines.
Unfortunately, keeping the price of copper ore low has made copper processing units very profitable even with old and destructive technology, and many investors in recent years have established such units with or without a license in the four corners of the country.
The following function, which is derived from the global standard of copper ore, should be considered as an evaluating index. This function depends on the global value of copper prices in London Metal Exchange (LME), the exchange rate in the official market of Iran (market approved by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran) as well as global and standard factors of copper ore valuation.