Image via Canva Pro. China controls over 75 percent of Tajikistan’s output of gold and for the last 30 years, it has remained the biggest foreign investor in the country’s struggling economy. There are currently 40 known gold deposits in the country with an estimated 500 tons of total gold resources — much of which has remained unexplored. The government of Tajikistan has strategically focused on increasing mining production for the three decades since its independence in 1991. This is because 93 percent of its territory consists of mountainous areas that contain more than 50 types of minerals…