Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Company is a large Uzbek industrial enterprise. The company's most important gold ore deposits are located in the Kyzylkum Desert.[3]
History
The company was established to mine for uranium, for the Soviet nuclear weapon programme, at the Muruntau mine in the Kyzylkum Desert in 1958.[4] However, in the 1960s and 1970s, it diversified into gold mining at the Muruntau mine.[4]
In 2008, it entered into a contact to supply the South Korean company Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) with 2,600 tonnes of uranium over the next seven years.[5] and, in 2014, it signed a contract to deliver 2,000 tonnes of uranium concentrates annually to India over the next four years.