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General Base Minerals has received a licence to conduct gold exploration across 11 square kilometres within Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Nuclear Safety Zone, with over 20,000 metres of drilling planned in the Shan area…
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Kazakhstan's Zhezkazganredmet has signed a $107 million five-year rhenium offtake contract with UK firm Maritime House, backing a $30 million secondary rhenium processing plant in Saran as the state enterprise expands into…
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Uzbekistan's Technological Metals Complex has met with Canadian driller RJLL Drilling and consulting firm Astera Minerals to discuss joint geological exploration covering diamond core drilling, reverse circulation drilling, geophysical surveys and geochemical…
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Azzuro Resources' MU2603 hole at Mongolia's Red Hill project returned 21.45 metres at 1.70% copper and 0.85g/t gold, confirming higher grades up-dip from 2025 drilling, while RC results suggest a separate shallow…
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Kazakhstan's national minerals processing centre has developed a carbothermic smelting method that extracts lithium from low-grade aluminosilicate ores at 12 to 14% lithium oxide concentration — roughly double conventional yields — while…
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The EBRD is providing Solidcore Resources with a $300 million loan to build Central Asia's first pressure oxidation hydrometallurgical plant in Pavlodar, enabling domestic processing of refractory gold concentrates that account for…
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Ulytau Gold Processing has revised its environmental documentation for the Ashiktas heap leach gold mine in central Kazakhstan, maintaining its 1.5 million tonne annual processing capacity and 1,700-kilogram gold output target as…
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Kazakhstan's Ädilet party Business Council, meeting with major mining companies and state bodies, concluded that deep processing and high value-added production must replace raw material exports as the central development priority for…
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The EU and China have agreed to three months of trade consultations covering rebalancing, rare earth export controls, intellectual property and WTO reform, after Chinese exports to the bloc outpaced imports by…
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Rio Tinto has cut management fees by half and reduced loan interest by 2.5 percentage points at the $18 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine after Mongolian pressure and protests, though analysts warn…