Sormak mining co, established in 1971 with a workforce of over 160 employees, is active in the field of exploring and extracting of mines and deposits in Iran. This company is absolutely managed privately and the director manager of the company has the authority to make all decisions.In the recent years, due to the significant technological progress, extraction and mining of Gilsonite (natural bitumen) have been done from our mines in Gilangharb in Kermanshah province. In addition, Sormak Mining Co. has done so many experiments on recovery of Gilsonite and run a pilot factory of Gilsonite recovery which is totally new in Asia to reduce the ash content of Gilsonite to very small amounts competitive with American Gilsonite. Sormak Mining Co. has been invented a kind of asphalt and also anti-corrosion material used in waste water pipes, gas pipes and some kind of mastic, enamel and primer with the base of Gilsonite, this rare and precious material. We are the pioneer in the mining and producing Gilsonite in Iran with the capacity of producing 20000 ton per year. Sormak Mining Co. produces also 40000, 4000, 120000 tone annually of iron ore, lead concentrate and zinc concentrate, respectively. All of these have been done by 160 specialists and technicians who are the best in the fields of their jobs. We have achieved to a stable and logical relationship with our customers over these years and due to this, we are playing an important roll to investigate of producing and exporting in the field of zinc and lead industries. The esteemed local customers such as cement factories, Iran Lead and Zinc National Co and the international companies like as Trafigura, Galincor, Marc Rich and the countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, Switzerland, China, Japan, Korea and are some examples of our customers and countries that we have made a successful business with them.