Q2 Mining PPI Inflation Crosses 40 Percent: SCI

The average Producer Price Index for the mining sector in the four-quarter period ending Sept. 22, which marks the end of the second quarter of the current fiscal year, increased by 40.4% compared with the same period of the year before, according to the Statistical Center of Iran.
The sector’s average PPI for the four-quarter period to June 21, i.e., the end of Q1 of the current Iranian year, had increased by 62.1% compared with the same period of the year before. 
The average annual producer inflation of the “coal extraction” subsector in Q2 was at 48.5% and those of “extraction of metal ores” and “extraction of other mines” were at 38.4% and 56% respectively.