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Companies & Organisations
Czech companies including Škoda Auto, BBS and ČEZ Group are expanding in Kazakhstan through vehicle assembly, heat exchanger manufacturing and uranium supply talks, as six new bilateral cooperation agreements signal deepening industrial…
Policies and Regulation
Kazakhstan has launched eight new non-ferrous metal processing projects in 2026 and is developing a further 34 across copper, aluminium, zinc and tungsten, with a total investment pipeline of 6.9 trillion tenge…
Industry News
Altynalmas has flagged Kazakhstan's National Bank gold purchase monopoly as a key risk in its AIX IPO prospectus, warning it concentrates credit risk and blocks access to project financing, while targeting output…
Companies & Organisations
QAZ Gold BK has launched a five-year gold exploration programme at the Berezovskaya site in East Kazakhstan, planning 123 drill holes and 60 kilometres of survey traverses across a 13.65 square kilometre…
Companies & Organisations
Navoiyuran has launched commercial uranium production at Kizilkok using oxygen-based in-situ leaching technology that cuts extraction costs by up to threefold, as the Uzbek state miner accelerates an expansion programme targeting several…
Industry News
Central Asia has accumulated a growing stack of critical minerals agreements with Western governments, but structural barriers — the midstream processing gap, stakeholder misalignment, infrastructure deficits and China's embedded position — mean…
Industry News
Kyrgyzstan is courting Western mining investors with a carefully calibrated critical minerals reset, but the shadow of the Kumtor nationalisation, the absence of new legal protections and the country's volatile political history…
Companies & Organisations
China's Meiteng Technology has successfully commissioned five XRT ore sorting units at Tajik-China Mining's lead-zinc operations in Tajikistan, achieving a 14.83% waste rejection rate as the company expands its intelligent sorting systems…
Companies & Organisations
Uzbekistan's Navoiyuran has commissioned the Kizilkok uranium mine and reported a 35% surge in output to 7,000 tonnes in 2025, but rising sulphuric acid costs driven by the production expansion are emerging…
Industry News
Казахстан заменяет налог на добычу полезных ископаемых системой роялти и вводит преференциальный статус для инвесторов, берущих обязательства по внутренней переработке, — вице-министр Иран Шархан представил на MINEX 2026 наиболее масштабную перестройку горнодобывающей…