Chinese investors plan to build two alumina plants in Kazakhstan’s Kostanay region. The first plant is expected to have a capacity of up to 1 million tons per year. The project cost is 263.9 billion tenge ($0.554 billion). Production is scheduled to begin in 2028. The second plant is expected to have a capacity of…
Uzbekistan has gone five months without exporting gold, according to the National Statistics Committee. No shipments of the precious metal were made to foreign markets in January-February, compared with $1.7 billion during the same period in 2025. The suspension of sales began in October 2025 and continues despite high global prices. Gold prices remained near…
At a Government sitting on March 31, the Industry and Construction Minister Yersaiyn Nagaspayev announced the key innovative solutions launched in the country’s mining and smelting industry. He revealed that for the past five years, major mining companies had invested nearly 150 billion tenge in scientific research and developmental works, implementing over 1,500 projects. These…