BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 1. Ten new gold deposits have been discovered in Tajikistan, Director of the Institute of Geology, Earthquake Engineering, and Seismology of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Ilhomjon Oymukhammadzod told journalists, Trend reports via Tajik media.
The new gold reserves are located in Central Tajikistan and in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province of the country. Their precise value will be estimated after additional exploration work.
At the same time, 13 placer gold deposits with a length of 52.2 kilometers were discovered in the regions of Muminabad and Shamsiddin Shohin Districts of Tajikistan.
According to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan, the country has rich sources of gold, with 137 deposits of industrial gold, as well as 127 reserves of non-industrial gold.
The largest gold mining company in Tajikistan is the Tajik-Chinese “Zarafshon” joint venture, which accounts for 70 percent of total gold production in the country.
In total, 18 gold mining companies operate in Tajikistan, besides “Zarafshon”, the largest ones being “Aprelevka” joint venture, "Tilloi Tojik" state enterprise, “Odina” mining artel, and “Pakrut” company.
