GRK Metallinvest LLP is set to begin developing the Ansai barite deposit located in the Turkestan region of Kazakhstan. The company has invested around 12 billion tenge in the initiation of the project, reported the regional akimat press service. Ground reserves of barite at Ansai were estimated to be 7 million tons.
Metalloinvest's plans involve open-pit mining of this mineral from the sulfate class and the construction of an enrichment complex with a capacity of 250 thousand tons of natural barium sulfate near the city of Kentau. The press service of the akimat highlighted that barite concentr
