This Article Mining in Tajikistan is composed of Creative Common Content.\n The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org.\n Tajikistan has rich deposits of gold silver and antimony. The largest silver deposits are in Sughd Province where Tajikistans largest gold mining operation also is located. Russias Norilsk nickel company has explored a large new silver deposit at Bolshoy Kanimansur. More than 400 mineral deposits of some 70 different minerals have been discovered in Tajikistan including strontium tungsten molybdenum bismuth salt lead zinc fluorspar and mercury.refref These minerals have been found suitable for mining.ref Uranium an important mineral in the Soviet era remains in some quantity but is no longer extracted. The Tajikistan Aluminium Company TALCO an aluminium smelter is the countrys only largescale production enterprise in the mining sector. Tajikistan hosts the annual Mining World Tajikistan an international exhibition on mining in Dushanbe.