Uzbekistan has a highly developed metallurgical industry, which is based on abundant natural resources. Suffice to say that Uzbekistan is in fourth place in the world in proven reserves of gold and is in seventh place for its production, in seventh place on the reserves of uranium and the eleventh-twelfth place in the world in copper reserves. Also, Republic has significant reserves and other metals, including precious and rare, such as silver, molybdenum, bismuth, tungsten, lithium, and others. On the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan identified a wide range of minerals, including about 100 kinds of minerals, 60 of which are already used in the national economy.

Present level of exploration of minerals is connected with mastering richest deposits of precious and non-ferrous and rare metals, all types of fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and gas condensates, gray and half-coke coal, oil shale, uranium, many kinds of raw materials for building materials.

Non-ferrous metallurgy, concentrated mainly in Angren-Almalyk industrial area. This industry includes the production of copper, refractory and heat-resistant metals, gold. The largest enterprise of this industry is “Almalyk Mining-Metallurgical Complex”. “Uzbek Combine of Refractory and heat-resistant metals” (Chirchik) is working on the basis of tungsten and molybdenum ores found in country.

Available stocks of mineral resources in its majority not only provide operating mining complexes in the long term, but also allow increasing power production, organizing mining of number major minerals as gold, uranium, copper, lead, silver, lithium, phosphate, potash, fluorspar, wollastonite, agrochemical ores, etc.

RANGE OF EXPORT PRODUCTS

• copper cathode;    • refined copper tubes;    • hot rolled steel bar;    • hot rolled steel round bar;

• hot rolled equal steel angles; • hot rolled steel channel; • hot rolled steel square bar.