Dengbo Success Minerals Ltd is planning to develop the Novo-Berezovskoye copper-zinc deposit in the Glubokovskoye District of East Kazakhstan Region through underground mining, with ore extraction scheduled to begin in 2028 and a total mine life of 13 years, according to project documentation published for public consultation.
The deposit is located 54 kilometres northwest of Ust-Kamenogorsk and 1.2 kilometres from the village of Verkhneberezovka, adjacent to a railway line. The mine plan envisages annual ore extraction of 300,000 tonnes in 2028 rising to 500,000 tonnes in 2029 and a peak rate of 700,000 tonnes per year from 2030 to 2034, before declining to 395,000 tonnes in 2035 and entering a three-year wind-down phase from 2036.
The deposit contains eight primary ore bodies with a predominantly northwest strike and dip angles of 40 to 75 degrees. The ore bodies extend more than 2,000 metres along strike and have been traced to an average depth of 750 metres, with the majority of reserves concentrated below 80 metres from surface. Total ore volume is estimated at 4,695,000 tonnes with grades of 1.67% copper, 4.85% zinc, 1.67% lead and 0.3 grams per tonne gold — grades the project documentation describes as favourable.
Dengbo Success Minerals Ltd is owned by Xinjiang Dengbo New Energy Co. Ltd, a Chinese company that provides silicon core processing services for the photovoltaic industry. The company’s director is listed as Jin Sheng in the Kazakhstani public registry adata.kz.
The Novo-Berezovskoye deposit was offered at auction by Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Industry in 2025. Chinese companies have been active participants in Kazakhstan’s metals deposit auctions in recent years.
