In January-February Kazakhstan produced 0.074 million tons of raw copper, up by 5.4% YoY. In February copper manufacture grew by 2.8% YoY, but dropped by 1.2% MoM, to 0.037 million tons. Zinc output in 2 months decreased by 4% YoY, to 0.052 million tons. In February Kazakhstan produced 0.027 million tons of zinc, down by…
According to Chelyabinsk Zinc Works commercial department director Alexander Pechenkin, in 2018 the zinc shortage on world market in 2018 was some 348 thousand tons. Its reserves dropped by 143 thousand tons, to 880 thousand tons. This year, compared with 2016, the forecast growth of zinc consumption in Russia will reach 20%. The zinc shortage…
The project to develop Ozernoye lead-zinc deposit in the Republic of Buryatia has been presented to the president representative in the Far East District, Yuri Trutnev, in order to receive state support. The license from December 2018 is owned by Ozernoye LLC. The deposit is one of the 10 largest zinc deposits in the world.…
Deputy chairman on Samruk Kazyna Alik Aidarbayev and the governor of the Kyzylorda region Krymbek Kusherbayev have laid the first capsule of the mining and processing works at the Shalkiya deposits. The plant is expected to produce 4 million tons of ore per year. Preparation to the construction started in May 2016. The cost of…
The construction of a plant to mine and process lead-zinc ores at the Pavlovskoye deposits is planned to be started in 2020. This year the design works on the enterprise will be finished. At the Pavlovskoye deposits the First Ore Company plans to process up to 3.5 million tons of ore per year. The construction…
The sales strategy of the Pavlovskoye deposit on the Novaya Zemlya is focused on foreign markets, Aleksandr Lukin, General Director of PGRK, declared. In 2023 the First Ore Mining Company (PGRK JSC, a company of Rosatom Corporation) is going to put into operation a lead and zinc concentrate production facility on Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Every…
A new mining and processing works will be constructed in Kyzylorda region. The corresponding documents have been signed during the investment forum in London. The guarantee agreement was signed by Samruk Kazyna fund chairman Akhmetzhan Yesimov and sir Suma Chakrabarti of EBRD, while the construction agreement – by Tau-Ken Samruk national company chairman Kanat Kudaibergen…
In January-August copper output in Kazakhstan grew by 0.2% YoY, to 0.28 million tons, with 0.042 million tons produced in August, up by 9% MoM. According to the statistics committee, zinc manufacture grew by 0.8%, to 0.22 million tons. In August output decreased by 1.4% and by 3.7% YoY. The largest non-ferrous metals manufacturers in…