South Khorasan Mine to Provide Feed for 1st Coal-Powered Plant

Mazino Coal Mine in Tabas, South Khorasan Province, was launched on Tuesday to provide feedstock for Tabas Power Plant that is currently under construction. 
Two million tons of coal per year will be extracted from Mazino, an open-pit mine, to be fed into Tabas Power Station that is the first coal-fired power plant in Iran and will be operational in three years, the Energy Ministry’s news website Paven reported.
Open-pit mining, also known as mega-mining, open-cast or open cut mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow.
This form of mining differs from extractive methods that require tunneling. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or rocks are found near the surface.