Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov met with Xi Zhengping, chairman of the board of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Co. Ltd to discuss copper industry cooperation. Following the meeting, the parties signed an agreement on constructing a copper mill with a capacity of 300,000 tons a year near Aktogai village in Abai region. A cluster will…
Almalyk Mining and Processing Works is carrying out a major investment project “Developing the Yoshkil I deposit”. Under the project, the company receives new mining machines. In particular, recently Almaluk has received 2 Krantas NMTE-240 dump trucks with the carrying capacity of 236 tons. This year, one more such dump truck will be purchased. The…
The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan has passed in the first reading the decree on canceling the moratorium of developing uranium deposits. The moratorium on the extraction of uranium and thorium was imposed after a scandal around the Kyzyl-Ompol deposit near the Issyk-Kul Lake. In spring of 2019, it became known that the UrAsia in Kyrgyzstan company…
The Cabinet of Ministers has allowed the export of coal in the volume of more than 1 million tons until the end of the year. With its decision, the Cabinet has made amendments to its decree No. 1402 dated December 27, 2023. In particular, the zero quotation for the export of coal has been replaced…
The government of Armenia has prolonged the prohibition of exporting ferrous and non-ferrous metal scrap and waste for six months to support domestic steel manufacture and metal industry. The ban was previously extended on December 21, 2023. Armenia does not have effective iron ore deposits, so local metal plants rely on scrap procured domestically. Since…
Under the investment project “Eshlik I deposit development” Almalyk Mining and Processing Works is installing and launching new machinery in the copper-processing factory No. 3 that is under construction. In particular, 6 new highly efficient high-pressure HPGR 24/19-9 press roll crushers are being installed. Such machines process ore pieces with the size of 60 mm…
Australia will not supply coal to Ukraine to help it overcome the consequences of the massive missile attacks by Russia on the energy infrastructure. “The support we provide now is mostly focused on military aid that allows Ukraine fighting Russia,” the deputy prime minister Richard Marles has said. He notes that Canberra tries to make…
During a meeting of the Government, the Minister of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kanat Sharlapaev informed that the metallurgical industry was scheduled to implement 21 projects with a total investment of 464.2 billion tenge this year. Sharlapaev has noted that the schemes are expected to result in the creation of more…