Kazakhstan’s Minister of Industry and Construction, Ersayin Nagaspayev, held a meeting with Ahmet Çalık, Chairman of the Board of Çalik Holding, to discuss potential investment opportunities in the country’s industrial and mining sectors.
Çalik Holding, a major Turkish financial-industrial group with an annual revenue of $2.5 billion, operates across 34 countries, including Central Asia, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa. The company specializes in resource extraction, construction, light industry, energy, and finance.
The meeting focused on the group’s interest in investing in Kazakhstan’s economy, particularly in the mining sector. Çalik Holding is considering acquiring ready-to-extract deposits of precious and base metals such as gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead, or conducting geological exploration in areas with high potential for mineral discovery.
Both sides highlighted the strong potential for cooperation in industry, construction, mining, and geological exploration. Minister Nagaspayev emphasized that Kazakhstan has fully digitized its mineral rights application process through the unified “Minerals.e-qazyna.kz” platform. Additionally, the Ministry has prepared a list of 50 solid mineral deposits, which will be auctioned electronically in the second quarter of this year.
At the conclusion of the meeting, both parties reaffirmed their interest in strengthening and expanding their partnership.
