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Kazakhstan mined 3.1% (USGS) of the world's copper in 2025 (estimated) and refined 1.7% (USGS).

3.1%

of the world's copper mining in 2025 (estimated), according to USGS · about 1 in 20

#9 in copper miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    3

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    26

    Mines and plants in the open sources. Coverage is partial.

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $6.9bn

    2024; most of it copper; 25 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    813gCO2e/kWh

    2025

OverviewSupply chainMoneySustainabilityRisks & policySourcesHistory & talk

Overview

What it produces

Share of world output, per material and stage. Each bar is one source's figure; where two sources report the same stage, both are shown and never blended. A full-width bar would be 100%.

  • Copper· Mine

    • 3.1%about 1 in 20#9 in copper miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 710 kt

      Rank 9 of the 14 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Tungsten· Mine

    • 2.8%#3 in tungsten miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 2 400 t

      Rank 3 of the 11 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Copper· Refine

    • 1.7%#11 in copper refiningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 500 kt

      Rank 11 of the 17 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Antimony· Mine

    • 0.7%#8 in antimony miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 800 t

      Rank 8 of the 15 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
KAZ
GDP
$306bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
9.1% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
16% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
2 083 km² (2019; rank 15 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Kazakhstan
  • Mine or brine operation
  • Processing site

Sites are those in the open sources. A site missing here is missing from the sources, not from the world.

Sites on record · 26

26 of 26 shown

One entry per site. Where two sources describe the same site, the atlas lists the record of the source it ranks higher.

Country in context

Copper: Mine production, 2025 (estimated). All rows come from the same table.

Country in context: Copper, Mine production, 2025
Countrythousand metric tonsShare of worldSource
KazakhstanThis country7103.1 %
ChileLargest producer in the table5 30023.0 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it23 000–

Supply chain

Every figure the sources give for this country, its trade partners per material, and where its sites are.

Production, refining and reserves

The latest year of each series. Share is of the series total: the larger of the source world total and the sum of its rows. Rank counts only the countries that have a number in that series.

Production, refining and reserves: Kazakhstan
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Copper: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 9 of 14710 kt3.1 %
Copper: Refinery production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 11 of 17500 kt1.7 %
Copper: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 12 of 1420 000 kt2.0 %
Tungsten: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 3 of 112 400 t2.8 %
Tungsten: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026Not available–
Antimony: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 8 of 15800 t0.7 %
Antimony: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026Not available–

Mines and plants listed without coordinates · 48

The USGS Minerals Yearbook names these operations in Kazakhstan with company, place and annual capacity, but gives no coordinates, so they are not on the map. Capacity is not production. Each row is from the chapter year shown.

Material and productKindCompany, as listedPlace, as listedAnnual capacityYearSource
AntimonyAntimony, mine, concentrate,MineKazzinc Ltd. [Glencore plc, 69.7%, and NMC Tau-KenLead plant, Ust-Kamenogorsk metallurgical700 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineProvince: Artemyevskiy, Irtyshskiy, and Orlovsky Mines44 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > —ContinuedMineQostanay Provincenot given2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineAktyubinskaya Mednaya Kompaniya LLP (AMK) [Russian Copper Co. (RMK)]Vesenne-Aralchinskoye Mine, Aqtobe Province4 500 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineAktyubinskaya Mednaya Kompaniya LLP (AMK) [Russian Copper Co. (RMK)]Two concentrators, Aqtobe Province9 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineBalkhashtsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Balkhash concentrator, Qaraghandy Province40 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineBalkhashtsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLP, 100%)Kounrad Mine, Qaraghandy Province5 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineBalkhashtsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLP, 100%)Sayak Mine, Qaraghandy Province5 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineBalkhashtsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLP, 100%)Shartykul Mine, Zhambyl Province21 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineCopper Technology LLP {Aktyubinskaya Mednaya Kompaniya LLP (AMK) [Russian Copper Co. (RMK), 100%]}50th Anniversary of October Mine, Koktau, Aqtobe Province355 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineCopper Technology LLP {Aktyubinskaya Mednaya Kompaniya LLP (AMK) [Russian Copper Co. (RMK), 100%]}Priorskoye Mine, Aqtobe Province8 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineKaragandatsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Karagaily concentrator in Qaraghandy Region complex, Qaraghandy Province10 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineKaragandatsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Nurzkazgan concentrating mill, Qaraghandy Province33 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKaragandatsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLP)Abyz Mine, Qaraghandy Province9 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKaragandatsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLP)Kusmuryn-Aktabasu Mine, Abay Province6 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKaragandatsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLP)Nurkazgan (Samarskoye) Mine, Qaraghandy Province28 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKaragandatsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLP)Khadzhikongan Mine, Qaraghandy Province3 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKAZ Minerals Ltd. (Nova Resources BV, 100%)Aktogay Mine, Abay Province203 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKAZ Minerals Ltd. (Nova Resources BV, 100%)Bozshakol Mine, Pavlodar Province102 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKAZ Minerals Ltd. (Nova Resources BV, 100%)East Region complex, Shyghys Qazaqstannot given2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKazgeorud LLP {Aktyubinskaya Mednaya Kompaniya LLP (AMK) [Russian Copper Co. (RMK)]}Kundyzdy Mine, Aqtobe Province11 300 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineKazzinc Ltd. [Glencore plc, 69.7%, and NMC Tau-KenRidder GOK,2 Shyghys Qazaqstan Province:not given2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineKazzinc Ltd. [Glencore plc, 69.7%, and NMC Tau-KenEast Region complex, Shyghys Qazaqstannot given2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineMaksut Minerals LLP (BAST JSC, 100%)Maksut concentrator, Abay Provincenot given2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMinePolymetal International plc, 100%Concentrator at Varvara Hub, Qostanay Provincenot given2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Ridder-Sokolny Mine4not given2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Shubinsky Mine52 800 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Tishinsky Mine15 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Maleevsky Mine in Altay GOK,2 Shyghys Qazaqstan Province40 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Province: Nikolayevsky and Orlovsky concentrators46 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Aktogay concentrators, Abay Province213 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Bozshakol concetrator for kaolinized ore processing, Pavlodar Province102 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Altay concentrator in Altay GOK,2 Shyghys Qazaqstan Province10 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineSamruk JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]Ridder concentrator in Ridder GOK,2 Shyghys Qazaqstan Province10 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > —ContinuedMineZhanashyr Project LLP (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Zhaisan Mine, Zhamby Province300 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > —ContinuedMineZhezkazgantsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)North Zhezkazgan Mine, Ulytau Province15 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > —ContinuedMineZhezkazgantsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)South Zhezkazgan Mine, Ulytau Province79 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > —ContinuedMineZhezkazgantsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Zhilandinsky Mine, Ulytau Province26 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > —ContinuedMineZhezkazgantsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Zhomart Mine,7 Ulytau Province68 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > —ContinuedMineZhezkazgantsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Zhaisan Mine, Zhambyl Province300 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > Concentrate, Cu contentMineZhezkazgantsvetmet PA (Kazakhmys Corp. LLC, 100%)Zhezkazgan concentrator No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3,8 Ulytau Province21 200 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > MetalPlantCentral Asia Metals plcSmelter and refinery in Kounrad, Qaraghandy Province14 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > MetalPlantIrgiz Metal Corp. LLP (Khavand Nahan Zamin Co., 100%)Borly mining complex, Qaraghandy Province5 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > MetalPlantKazakhmys Smelting LLPBalkhash copper smelting and refinery plant, Qaraghandy Province220 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > MetalPlantKazakhmys Smelting LLPZhezkazgan copper smelting and refinery plant, Ulytau Province200 000 metric tons per year2023
CopperCopper > Ore, recoverable, Cu content > MetalPlantUst-Kamenogorsk metallurgical complex {Kazzinc Ltd. [Glencore plc, 69.7%, and Tau-Ken Samruk NMC JSC, 29.82% (National Wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC, 100%)]}Smelter and refinery in Oskemen (also known as Ust-Kamenogorsk), Shyghys Qazaqstan Province19 000 metric tons per year2023
NickelNickel, concentrateMineBalausa Firm LLP (Ferro-Alloys Resources Ltd., 100%)Balasauskandyk processing plant, Turkistan Province60 metric tons per year2023
Rare earthsRare earth elements, recovered fromNot specifiedSummit Atom Rare Earth Co. LLP (SARECO LLP)Plant in Stepnogorsk, Aqmola Province1 500 metric tons per year2023

Trade partners

3 recorded flows, 2024

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
  • Kazakhstan

Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.

Recorded trade flows of Kazakhstan: Copper
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Export toChinaCopperMine2024$2.9bn
Export toChinaCopperRefine2024$2.5bn
Export toTürkiyeCopperRefine2024$1.2bn

Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.

26 sites, deposits and projects on record are listed with the map in the Overview →

Money

What the trade data and the World Bank record in money terms. Every value is a reported figure with its own year.

All recorded trade flows of 2024 under the customs codes that isolate one of the ten materials, by value (CEPII BACI, reconciled estimates, current US dollars). Codes that mix several materials are left out, so trade in those materials is understated; gallium and germanium have no usable code at all. Each material lists its five largest partners. Why trade data blurs some materials

Exports of the ten materials

$6.9bnin 2024, with 25 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$464Min 2024, with 26 partner countries

The economy around mining

World Bank indicators. Each has its own latest year, shown next to the value; mineral rents are often several years old.

  • GDP (current US$)

    $306bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    9.1%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    16%

    Year 2025

Government revenue from extractives

EITI, reported

What government agencies reported receiving from extractive companies, per fiscal year, as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) publishes it in US dollars. A total covers every sector the country's report covers and is not split by mineral.

$11bnlatest reported fiscal year, 2021

Sectors in the report: mining, oil, gas · Period: 2021-01-01 – 2021-12-31

All 16 reported years
Fiscal yearGovernment revenue (US$)Sectors in the reportCountry fileSource
20212021-01-01 – 2021-12-3110 522 401 074mining, oil, gassummary file
20192019-01-01 – 2019-12-3112 074 609 350mining, oil, gassummary file
20182018-01-01 – 2018-12-3115 103 727 974mining, oil, gassummary file
20172017-01-01 – 2017-12-3110 989 820 397mining, oil, gassummary file
20162016-01-01 – 2016-12-317 350 727 157mining, oil, gassummary file
20152015-01-01 – 2015-12-3115 048 896 726mining, oil, gassummary file
20142014-01-01 – 2014-12-3137 597 934 165mining, oil, gassummary file
20132013-01-01 – 2013-12-3131 398 249 084mining, oil, gassummary file
20122012-01-01 – 2012-12-3132 789 820 339mining, oil, gassummary file
20112011-01-01 – 2011-12-3134 093 076 279mining, oil, gassummary file
20102010-01-01 – 2010-12-3122 007 169 958mining, oil, gassummary file
20092009-01-01 – 2009-12-3112 551 520 806mining, oil, gassummary file
20082008-01-01 – 2008-12-3120 652 032 479mining, oil, gassummary file
20072007-01-01 – 2007-12-3112 279 492 188mining, oil, gassummary file
20062006-01-01 – 2006-12-319 866 648 665mining, oil, gassummary file
20052005-01-01 – 2005-12-312 594 769 087oilsummary file

EITI reports lag by two to four years. The figure is the report's own total and is not adjusted for inflation. Republished under EITI's Content Use Policy with credit to the EITI International Secretariat, eiti.org. These figures are kept in a file of their own and are not part of the atlas's ODbL data. EITI open data

Investment pipeline

announced figures

Planned and under-construction projects in Kazakhstan with a publicly announced capital cost, public financial backing, or both. Each line is one statement by the named publisher on the given date; the atlas adds nothing to it.

No data yet. The atlas has read no announcement of this kind for a project in Kazakhstan. The list is short and hand-read; a missing project is missing from the list, not from the world.

A short, hand-read list, not a census: 19 projects in all. Announced amounts are not spending, a letter of interest or a conditional commitment is not a loan, and amounts stay in the currency of the announcement.

Public support instruments

Stockpiles, price floors, offtake and purchasing programmes and public funds of Kazakhstan's government, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.

No data yet. The atlas has read no public support instrument of Kazakhstan's government. The list is short and hand-read.

Mining companies headquartered here · 11

Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Kazakhstan, for every commodity, not only the ten materials. Wikidata is edited by volunteers: entries may be missing or out of date, and each name links to its item. A listing names an exchange and a ticker; it is not a price.

CompanyHeadquartersStock listingLEISource
Aluminum KazakhstanPavlodarKazakhstan Stock Exchange: ALKZ—
KazatompromAstanaAstana International Exchange: KAPKazakhstan Stock Exchange: KZAPLondon Stock Exchange: KAP—
KazchromeAktobeKazakhstan Stock Exchange: KZCR—
Sokolov-Sarbai Mining Production AssociationRudnyKazakhstan Stock Exchange: SSGP—
ArcelorMittal TemirtauTemirtau——
Bogatyr Access KomirEkibastuz——
KazphosphateAlmaty——
QarmetTemirtau——
Shubarkol komirKaraganda——
Temirtau Electrometallurgical PlantTemirtau——
Zhezkazgan copper smelting complexJezkazgan——

These figures are informational, not financial advice.

Sustainability

Four indicators, the same on every profile. Each is a figure with its unit, year and source, or a plain statement that there is none.

  • Carbon

    Emissions intensity of the country's electricity grid.

    813gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 96% of the other 208 countries with a grid figure.

    • It describes the national grid, not mining or refining. Sites may run on their own power.

  • Water

    Share of the country's mine sites on record that lie in high or extremely high baseline water stress.

    22%of mine sites on record

    2023Estimated

    No world percentile: the number of sites on record differs too much between countries to compare them.

    • 5 of 23 sites with a class (23 mine and brine sites on record).
    • Counted by site, not by tonnage: it is not a share of production.
    • "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.

  • Land

    Land visibly used by mining in the country, every commodity together.

    2 083km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 90% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 15 of 144 countries by area.
    • Mapped from satellite images for all mining in a country. It cannot be attributed to one material or one site.

  • Circularity

    Recycling's share of demand.

    Not available per country: recycling rates in the atlas are published per material, for the EU as a whole.

There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures

Risks & policy

Export controls in force

Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.

USGS Table 4 lists no export control by this country for the materials in the atlas.

Chokepoints at sea

The atlas has no record of which minerals pass through which sea passage, so no chokepoint figure is attached to this profile. Current ship counts for the main passages are on the Live page. Open the Live page

Gaps

What the atlas is missing for Kazakhstan

Computed from the data. Each line names a record that exists and one that does not. It marks missing data, not missing industry.

  • A copper producer (3.1% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no site record names an owner or operator.
  • Listed as a tungsten producer (2.8% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A tungsten producer (2.8% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no site record names an owner or operator.
  • Listed as a antimony producer (0.7% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A antimony producer (0.7% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no site record names an owner or operator.
  • Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows. 3 of them name this country.

Add dataAll gaps, across materials

Sources

Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.

The mining-area figure comes from a share-alike source (CC-BY-SA-4.0). It is kept in its own file under that licence, apart from the rest of the atlas's data.

History & talk

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