People of this country are leaving their jobs and digging in the ground to extract gold.

Here plots having the possibility of presence of gold are auctioned. Common people also buy plots in this auction. Then they dig and extract gold from the soil. The gold extracted from here can be sold only through the Central Bank. This money goes into the pockets of common people. The Uzbekistan government intends to transform the economy by finding gold. The government wants people to remain engaged in this work, so that they continue to get employment. In 2015, 61 tonnes of gold was extracted from the Muruntau mine here, which was the highest. In the last several years, gold production here has reached record levels. The highest gold production in the world comes from the Muruntau mine of Uzbekistan. Currently 1700 lakh ounces of gold can be extracted from this mine.