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Industry News
Uzbekistan is launching a new government office and digital platform to monitor the steel market and bring more scrap metal into the formal economy.
Industry News
The US Court of International Trade has ordered the Commerce Department to reconsider its antidumping ruling against Kazakhstani ferrosilicon producers Kazchrome and YDD Corporation, returning key questions on sales methodology and pricing…
Partner Podcasts
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are ready to do critical raw materials business with the EU — but not forever. In Raw Matters Podcast Episode #11, Amir Abidov (UzTMK) joins hosts Peter Tom Jones…
Companies & Organisations
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…
Companies & Organisations
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…
Companies & Organisations
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…
Companies & Organisations
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…
Industry News
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…
Companies & Organisations
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…
Industry News
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…