Tajikistan may legitimize artisanal and small-scale gold mining within the next few months and persons interested will be able to be engaged in gold-digging.
“The Ministry of Finance has worked out a document on the artisanal and small-scale gold mining and the document has already been submitted for consideration to the government,” Deputy Head of the Main Geology Directorate under the Government of Tajikistan, Rahmonbek Bakhtdavlatov, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
If this document is endorsed, citizens of Tajikistan will be able to extract gold in territories, which are not under the jurisdiction of the gold mining companies.
For this , they will have to get permission (license) from the Ministry of Finance.
The permission will be given for production of gold in certain territories that do not belong to physical and legal entities.
They will be able to sell their gold to the state financial institutions and the price for gold that will be bought from the population will be set by the Ministry of Finance.
Artisanal and Small-scale mining (ASM) refers to informal mining activities carried out using low technology or with minimal machinery. The term Artisanal and Small-scale Mining broadly refers to mining practiced by individuals, groups or communities often informally and in developing nations.
