According to the licence register of e-Qazyna, the unified subsoil use platform of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Industry and Construction, 13 exploration licences for solid minerals were issued between October 15 and 19, all listed as active. Eleven of them were issued on October 19 – Nos. 4969-EL to 4979-EL – each valid from October 19, 2026 to October 19, 2032. (unconfirmed)
Holders and block counts for the October 19 licences, as shown on the register's licence cards: Arka minerals group Ltd. (4969-EL, 13 blocks, sheet M-42-138); RUDPROEKT LLP (4970-EL, 1 block); Sararka Metals LLP (4971-EL, 6 blocks, M-44-120); Gold InvestCapital LLP (4972-EL, 8 blocks, M-44-76); Kazakhstan Kincaid Tianshan Electronic Information Technology Co., Ltd. LLP (4973-EL, 59 blocks across sheets M-44-128, M-44-129 and M-44-141); Zhabdyk KZ LLP (4974-EL, 8 blocks); PAAKI NEDRA KAZAKHSTAN LLP (4975-EL, 1 block); Bereke gold group LLP (4976-EL, 8 blocks); KhonDa Mining Company LLP (4977-EL, 7 blocks); and Axel Minerals LLP (4978-EL and 4979-EL, 21 and 9 blocks). That is 141 blocks in total, 59 of them under 4973-EL. (unconfirmed)
Two holders have foreign backing. The beneficiary section for Sararka Metals lists a single beneficiary, a Chinese national holding 100%; the company already received exploration licence 4434-EL in May. Anglo REM CA Exploration Mining Ltd received 4967-EL on October 15 for six blocks on sheet M-43-47, valid until October 15, 2032. The register lists UK-based Anglo REM Exploration Mining Ltd as a founder, and the company previously obtained 4710-EL on August 13 and 4878-EL on September 26. (unconfirmed)
On October 16, Tas Trade KZ LLP received 4968-EL for three blocks. (unconfirmed)
Also on October 19, the register added two geological study licences that are far larger in coverage: 569-GINL for Infinitum company LLP covering 6,550 blocks, and 570-GINL for FG Field LLP covering 7,300 blocks, both valid until October 19, 2029. Their listed founders are Petroleum Line Ltd. and Minerals Company Ltd. respectively. (unconfirmed)
The e-Qazyna licence cards give block numbers and counts but do not state the target mineral or the area. Maria Lobacheva, programme director of the public association Echo, made the same point to BES.media in 2025: the contract register shows which mineral is being mined, but the licence list does not, because at the exploration stage it is often unclear what will eventually be extracted.
Rules related to this news
Licences are issued under the Code on Subsoil and Subsoil Use (No. 125-VI of December 27, 2017). An exploration licence grants the right to explore, not the right to mine.
In the newsroom's view, the register remains investors' main open tool for seeing who is taking licences, on which map sheets and at what scale.
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Sources:
- e-Qazyna licence register (Ministry of Industry and Construction): https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/guest/reestr/license/list
- Licence card 4967-EL: https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/guest/reestr/contract/list/340458044412000000/View
- Licence card 4971-EL: https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/guest/reestr/contract/list/340786311473000000/View
- Licence card 4973-EL: https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/guest/reestr/contract/list/340787660660000000/View
- Licence card 569-GINL: https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/guest/reestr/contract/list/340807518254000000/View
- Licence card 570-GINL: https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/guest/reestr/contract/list/340807552794000000/View
- BES.media, 03.10.2025: https://bes.media/news/zapasi-est-zakonov-net-chto-meshaet-kazahstanu-stat-liderom-po-kriticheskim-mineralam/
- Code of Kazakhstan on Subsoil and Subsoil Use (adilet K1700000125): https://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/K1700000125
(This article was prepared with AI assistance and reviewed by an editor; the illustration is AI-generated and is not a photograph.)