On January 24, 2013, state-owned company Kazatomprom announced that the uranium production in the Republic of Kazakhstan amounted to 20.9 ktU in 2012 (excluding data from the Stepnogorsk mining ...

Kazakhstan has 50 known uranium deposits in six provinces, and more than 20 operating uranium mines. The Chu-Sarysu basin in central Kazakhstan alone accounts for over half of the country's known ...

Kazakhstan's newest in-situ leach (ISL) uranium mine, Kharasan 1, has been officially opened at a ceremony attended by Kazakh, Japanese and Canadian dignitaries. It should produce 3000 tonnes of ...

Over the 2001-2005 period, Kazakh uranium production rose from 2000 to 4357 tonnes per year, and further mine development is underway with a view to annual production of 15,000 tonnes by 2010. In July ...