Business lines
Five business lines connect every stage of the gold life cycle: exploration defines the resource, mining sustains output, processing lifts recovery, trading secures the route to market, and investment replaces what is mined. Each stage is run by our own teams to our own technical standards, and critical operations are never outsourced.
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Licence blocks
Business portfolio
Each line can win work in the market on its own account, yet all five interlock from upstream to downstream: exploration results set the mine plan, metallurgical performance constrains ore blending at the pit, and trading and investment convert capacity and resources into sustainable cash flow.
Working from regional metallogenic controls to turn prospective areas into reportable Mineral Resources.
See detailsPredominantly open-pit and supported by underground mining, with production organised around safety, cost and dilution.
See detailsBuilt around carbon-in-leach, managing recovery and reagent consumption as a single set of metrics.
See detailsConnecting refineries, banks and end buyers so that every gram of gold has a compliant route to market.
See detailsLicence acquisition, joint ventures and a sector fund that keep the resource pipeline replenished.
See detailsUpstream · Resource acquisition
Exploration is the first gate in the value chain, and the only stage at which the fate of a project can still be changed at low cost.
The group holds 7 licence blocks across south-eastern and central Kazakhstan totalling approximately 813 km², located in the Almaty, Jetisu, Karaganda, Turkistan and Zhambyl regions. All contracts are current, with annual minimum exploration spend and payment obligations fully met.
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Midstream · Mining and stripping
Competitiveness in mining is not measured in tonnes, but in the durability of unit costs, dilution and the safety record.
Orebodies comprise mainly shallow to intermediate oxide material and the transition zone into primary ore. Mining is by open pit on 10 m benches, with pit slope angles held between 42° and 50° according to rock mass quality class.
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Midstream · Processing and recovery
Every percentage point of recovery adds resource without drilling a single additional metre.
The processing route is crushing — SAG/ball milling — gravity concentration — carbon-in-leach (CIL) cyanidation — elution and electrowinning — doré bullion. Grind size and leach conditions are set separately for each ore type.
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Downstream · Product and distribution
Trading delivers more than metal; it delivers a chain of custody that withstands scrutiny.
Doré produced by the Group is refined into standard bullion by LBMA-accredited refineries in Kazakhstan and sold mainly through two channels: the National Bank pre-emptive purchase right and over-the-counter agreements. Annual gold volume is around 4.2 t, settled across six markets and channels.
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Full cycle · Corporate finance
A mining company lives as long as its pipeline; the investment team exists to keep the resource base half a step ahead of production.
The investment arm handles licence acquisition and equity partnerships. Screening prioritises three conditions: systematic exploration results already in hand, accessible infrastructure and power, and stable community and local-government relations — typically mid-scale gold assets.
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End-to-end capability
From defining a prospective area to delivering doré, the Group keeps its own teams, its own standards and an auditable record of work at every stage, avoiding the cost, schedule and quality risk that comes with outsourcing critical operations.
Prospective areas defined from metallogenic belt studies, followed by surface mapping and soil geochemical surveys.
Core holes drilled on the planned drill spacing, with systematic sampling under three-tier QA/QC.
3D geological models built and Mineral Resources estimated under the KAZRC / JORC codes.
Feasibility study and ESIA completed, followed by roads, power, water supply and the processing plant itself.
Load and haul directed by the grade control model to stabilise mill feed tonnage and head grade.
Carbon-in-leach produces doré, refined by LBMA-accredited refineries before delivery.
Technology and equipment
Technical investment serves three ends: estimate the resource accurately, mine the ore precisely, and recover the gold completely. Every digital system we build exists to make those three measurable, day after day.
Integrated interpretation of geophysical and geochemical data feeds 3D ore body models; geostatistics drives grade interpolation and resource classification, with models updated quarterly as new holes are completed.
GPS truck dispatch issues digging instructions from the grade control model, electronic detonators deliver precise delay sequencing, and slope stability radar tracks movement on high, steep walls to millimetre accuracy.
Our own metallurgical laboratory runs testwork and leach kinetics optimisation, finding the economic optimum between recovery, reagent consumption and leach time.
A single production data platform links mining, processing and sales: tonnes moved, head grade, recovery and cost are reconciled daily, giving mine planning and investment decisions one shared set of figures.
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7 licence blocks span 5 regions of Kazakhstan, covering placer gold, lode gold and polymetals. Block number, area, cell count and centre coordinates are published for each.
