section_path: Economy
section_name: Economy
paragraph_text: Economy
  
  Minerals such as yellowcake uranium from the Gchine (Gachin) mine in Bandar Abbas is extracted by around 20 tonnes per year. Bandar Abbas is the site of a Chinese-built cruise missile production facility for the manufacture and upgrade of Silkworm (CSS-N-2) cruise missiles.
  
  Bandar Abbas produces and exports transit goods, dates, citrus, tobacco, and fishery such as canned tuna. The city was formerly famous for its export of Iranian pottery, and was known in the west as "goombroon". "Goombroon ware" was the original porcelain imported to England from Goombroon in the early 20th century. It was later replaced by china ware imported from China. Kaolin was the mineral from which the porcelain was made.