Tajikistan produced a record amount of gold in 2019 – nearly 8.1 tons.
According to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies (MoINT), Tajikistan last year produced gold 26.2 percent more than in 2018. In 2018, Tajikistan produced about 6.5 tons of gold.
Over the past five years, gold production has increased more than four times – from in 2014 to nearly 8.1 tons in 2019.
Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies had noted that over the past five years, an average annual rate of growth in gold production in the country was 20 percent. The authorities plan to keep the gold production in the coming years at the same rate.
Recall, Tajikistan produced 5,500 kilograms of gold in 2017 and 5,000 kilograms of gold in 2016. In 2015, Tajikistan produced about 4,200 kilograms of gold, which was nearly 32 percent more than in 2014. In 2014, Tajikistan produced about 3,200 kilograms of gold.
Tajikistan has 137 deposits with estimated reserves of industrial gold and 127 deposits of non-industrial gold. Tajikistan plans to increase annual production of gold to 17 tons beginning on 2022.
Four large gold mining companies now operate in Tajikistan: Tilloi Tojik; Tajik-Chinese JV Zarafshon; Tajik-Canadian JV Aprelevka; and China Nonferrous Gold Limited, which is the first foreign company to obtain 100% ownership of a mining and exploration project in Tajikistan. Besides, enterprises such as Odina, Nazira, Ganj, Barakat and Istiqlol are engaged in gold production in the country.
Most of gold comes from the Jilau deposit operated by Tajik-Chinese joint venture, Zarafshon, which reportedly accounts for more than 70 percent of the total amount of gold produced in Tajikistan.
