The Regional Department of Land and Water Supervision for Naryn region conducted an inspection of Shanci Coal Investment Group LLC, which mined coal in Min-Kush rural area of Dzhumgal district, the Ministry of Water Resources, Agriculture, and Processing Industry of Kyrgyzstan reported. According to the ministry, the inspection revealed violations of current legislation. As a…
The Eurasian Economic Commission is introducing a zero import duty rate for ferroniobium (TN VED 7202 93 000 0). The zero import duty rate of 0% of the customs value will be in effect until February 29, 2028. This is expected to reduce the ferroniobium shortage and increase rolled metal production in the Eurasian Economic…
The state-owned company Ukrzaliznytsia, metallurgical plants and scrap procurement companies, during a joint meeting on January 23, in Kyiv, reached agreements in principle on the terms of scrap metal sales, which would improve the results of the railway operator’s auctions. During the meeting, the head of UZ Oleksandr Pertsovsky reported on large stocks of scrap…
The state-owned company Uzmetkombinat has built and commissioned a casting and rolling complex in the city of Bekabad in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade has announced. The project cost $834 million. The plant is expected to produce up to 1.04 million tons of products per year. The production…
A project to create a complex of scrap metal processing and aluminum product manufacturing facilities is being implemented in the Saryarka Free Economic Zone (SEZ) in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region, the regional akimat (regional state administration) has announced. The project will be based on the full-cycle Silumin of Qazaqstan plant currently under construction in the free…
Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. plans to begin importing the rare metal gallium from Kazakhstan later this year to diversify supply sources of critical materials. The company said its subsidiary Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan Ltd. reached a deal in December 2025 with the government-affiliated Aluminium of Kazakhstan JSC to procure 15 tons of gallium per…
The state-owned enterprise Kyrgyzkomur mined 1,373,800 tons of coal last year. It was announced at a board meeting of the Ministry of Energy. Active mining is currently underway under nine licenses. The following deposits were officially opened in 2025: – Sulyuktu Talaa-11; – Beshburkhan; – Markai; – Torugart-1; – Kozho-Kelen. Mining operations are currently underway…
During the Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih on January 22, employees of two mines were trapped underground. They were at the depth of 1135, 865 and 475 meters. The Emergency Service spent 6 hours to take the miners to the surface. The miners had to cross almost 7 km. After midnight, another mine was cut…