A new gold deposit called Kukhe-dom has been found in the Shahristan District of the Isfahan Province of Iran with 35,000 tons of ore containing gold, Iran News reports.
Khorshidi, head of the department for industry, mines and trade of the district, says that they may extract about 2-3 grams of gold from a ton. He believes that the deposit holds about 2 tons of pure gold.
Studies of the deposit took 6 months and about $6.5 million.
Kukhe-dom is located about 70 km north-east of Ardestan, the administrative center of Shahristan, on the northern outskirts of Kavire-Degsorkh District near Zavare.
Isfahan has 520 metal and stone deposits with 3 billion tons of valuable materials. Isfahan is the top second gold province of Iran, after Western Azerbaijan.
World gold deposits total 49,000 tons. South Africa has the world’s highest deposits. Iran has about %1 of world gold deposits (about 500 tons).
