Rasta Resources has announced plans to conduct geological exploration for gold and silver across six licence areas in the Aktogay District of Karaganda Region, with work scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2026 and conclude in the fourth quarter of 2031.
The company received its exploration licence on 4 October 2025. The total licensed area covers 12 square kilometres, with the nearest inhabited settlement — the village of Koshkar — located more than 14 kilometres to the southeast. The exploration programme includes 21.4 linear kilometres of geological survey routes, topographic work across 1.69 square kilometres, and geophysical electrical survey work over two square kilometres. Mining works will involve the excavation of 2,000 cubic metres of trenches and the drilling of 30 exploration boreholes totalling 3,000 linear metres. Some 5,000 samples will be collected for gold analysis and other laboratory work, with the programme concluding in a geological report and reserve calculation under C1 and C2 categories.
Rasta Resources is registered in Almaty and is owned by AIFC-registered private company SD Resources Group Ltd and Almas Rakhymbayev. SD Resources Group is co-owned by Danagul Adamyshina and Suzanna Toktabayeva. Public registry data shows that Adamyshina is listed as director of at least seven companies registered at the same Almaty address, including White Peak, Metanor Resources, Noctung Resources, Quantum Minerals, Altynkol Resources and Terrasouth Resources.
The ownership structure carries notable background. Ten years ago, Adamyshina headed the subsoil use analysis and development department at Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Investment and Development — the predecessor to the current Ministry of Industry and Construction — and was actively involved in drafting the future Subsoil Code. Her co-owner Suzanna Toktabayeva shares a surname with Timur Toktabayev, who served as director of the subsoil use department and later as deputy minister at the same ministry before being convicted in 2023 and sentenced to seven years in prison. The director of OTSD Group Ltd, another company in the network, is listed as Olzhas Toktabayev.
