90 mines closed, 2,700 miners out of worker, Iran official says

The Statistics Center in Iran issued a report announcing 90 mines were closed from March 2014 to March 2015, leading to 2,700 minters losing their lives.

These numbers were gathered as 170 statistics agents went to around 6,400 mines across the country. The number of mines under work in the abovementioned period saw a decrease of 90 mines in comparison to a similar period the year before. The number of miners also decreased by 2,771.