Altynalmas Gold mining Company participated in the Alpys solid mineral deposit auction in Pavlodar region, which was organized online by the Ministry of Industry on the e-kazyna platform on August 27. Such information follows from the auction protocol posted on the website of the branch office. As I wrote in June inbusiness.kz The right to extract barite, gold, cadmium, copper, lead, silver, and zinc from Alpys was put up for competition, as well as the possibility of exploration there.
The initial amount of the deposit subscription bonus was initially announced at 25.2 million tenge. However, it aroused the interest of five bidders, of which Aurum Kazakhstan Group Ltd offered 220 million tenge, GPRK LLP – 998 million tenge, limited liability partnership Gold Consortium LLP – 1.5 billion tenge, and Altynalmas – almost 2.3 billion tenge.
However, the winner in the end turned out to be the professional services center “Excimop”, which quoted even higher – 2.4 billion tenge. The winning organization turned out to be from Shymkent, its head was Ten Mikhail Markovich, associated with the Legal Mind law firm and the BNN Group collection agency, he is also the founder of the Astana Archery and Darts Federation, according to open sources.
However, apparently, Altynalmas did not lose heart and won another auction for the exploration and production of gold at the Pervomaiskoye deposit in the Akmola region, which is the main region of presence for the corporation. In this fight, the winnings turned out to be much easier financially and cost only 52 million tenge, which allowed us to outbid another application of almost 42 million tenge from Astra-Il LLP, the initial amount of the subscription bonus started from 1.8 million tenge.
It should be noted that in the June notice of the August auction, it was emphasized that the future Pervomaisky subsoil user would have to deal with the consequences of the subsoil use of its previous owner, and Alpys would need to ensure the implementation of water protection measures. A total of 17 subsurface use facilities were sold at the auction, although 23 fields were announced in June. According to the e-auction data.gosreestr.kz The auction on August 27 did not take place only for the Kaynazar colored stone deposit in Zhambyl region.
Meanwhile, on September 25, the Ministry of Industry announced that auctions for deposits containing reserves of industrial categories of solid minerals are planned by the end of this year. The necessary geological information on them is posted on the website of the National Geological Survey (NGS).
In total, 33 new teasers of deposits and subsurface use areas were exhibited. They mainly contained small deposits of gold, manganese ores, coal, iron ores, lead and zinc, graphite, titanium, asbestos, rare metals, and muscovite. Among the proposed deposits, one can single out the Masalskoye iron ore deposit in the Akmola region, which the mining state holding Tau-Ken Samruk tried to deal with, design was carried out for its development and even public hearings were held.
In addition, the fields of sections of the Kushmurunskoye brown coal deposit in the Kostanay region were supposed to be put up for auction. Other well-known coal deposits presented for transfer to subsurface use at auctions are Sarykol in Pavlodar region and Sarykum in Karaganda region. A year ago inbusiness.kz He wrote that there were lawsuits against the former subsoil user around the latter.
Balazhal in the Abai region stands out in the list of gold deposits – it was bought by the Russian Severstal in 2008. Earlier, it was mentioned in connection with the Abai mine of the Suzdal gold mining company Nordgold, which is represented in Kazakhstan through its subsidiary Alel. Recall that these companies are associated with the Russian entrepreneur Alexei Mordashov.
Small reserves of rare metals – tantalum, niobium, beryllium – were demonstrated in the presentation of the Kalai-Tapkan deposit, which is located near the village of Belaya Gora in the Ulan district of the East Kazakhstan region. As you know, they have recently become increasingly in demand at the processing facilities of the Ulba Metallurgical Plant (UMZ) of Kazatomprom.
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