KyzylKum Desert - Zarafshan, Muruntau ( Зарафшан, Мурунтау) - Uzbekistan, #Zarafshan, #Kyzylkum

Zarafshan (Uzbek: Zarafshon / Зарафшон; Russian: Зарафшан) is a city of over 65,000 inhabitants in the center of Uzbekistan's Navoiy Province.
Located in the Kyzylkum desert, it receives water from the Amudarya by a 220-km pipeline.
Zarafshan is called "the gold capital of Uzbekistan". It is home of the Navoi Mining & Metallurgy Combinat's Central Mining Administration, charged with mining and processing gold from the nearby Muruntau open-pit mine. Between 1995 and 2006 the Muruntau gold mining and processing operation was run by the Zarafshan-Newmont Joint Venture, a foreign direct investment by Newmont Mining Corporation of Denver, Colorado (at the time the largest U.S. investor in Uzbekistan). As of 2007, full ownership reverted to Uzbekistan.
Once upon a time, I googled my name and to my amusement found the article about Zarafshan and about me, actually about this video.
The article was named 'In Zarafshan' and written on October 27, 2011, by someone named Tyler Olsen . He incorrectly said that I live now in North Dakota.
You can read a full article here: https://themorningnews.org/article/in-zarafshan
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