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The Muruntau mine is one of the largest gold mines in
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...
and in the world. The mine is located Located in the mountains of Murintau in the south-west of the Kyzylkum desert, on the territory of the Tamdynsky district of the Navoi region of Uzbekistan. The mine has estimated reserves of of gold.


History

The field was discovered in 1958, industrial mining process started on July 21, 1969. Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combinat is one of the largest Uzbek companies which has control over the mine.


General information

It is the leading deposit of the
Zarafshan Zarafshon ( uz, Zarafshon / Зарафшон, fa, زرافشان) is a city in the center of Uzbekistan's Navoiy Region. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Muruntau. It has an area of and it h ...
gold mining complex, which ranks second in terms of gold production (after the Grasberg enterprise in Indonesia). During the mining process, the mine became the largest gold mine in the world (length - 3.5 km, width - 2.7 km, depth - 600 m). In 2001, production was 53 tons per year and 61 tons in 2014. As of 2007, the residual gold reserves were estimated at 1,750 tons.


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