Kyrgyzstan: gold potential reaches 4,000 tons

Kyrgyzstan has more than 5,000 deposits of various minerals, including gold, rare earth elements, uranium, thorium and other valuable metals, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Narynbek Satybaldiev has announced at a briefing. According to approved government data, gold reserves in Kyrgyzstan amount to just over 1,000 tons. However, geologists estimate the country’s total resource at…