Kazakhstan Mineral Inventory — Assessment of Public Evidence

Reported progress and unresolved coverage

Counts below describe different things. Primary units, first volumes, accepted reports and unique deposits must not be treated as one conversion series.

Established in the inspected public record Partial or bounded evidence Not establishedEvidence cut-off: 4 September 2026

Methodology: Assessment of public evidence, with source attribution and explicit limits. Official and company delivery claims are treated as reported, unless independent verification is identified. “Not established” means not evidenced in the inspected record, not proof that no unpublished activity exists.

Reading the evidence labels. Status describes support for the specific claim within the inspected record. An established report of delivery is not independent verification of that delivery. Source notes distinguish official or company reporting, independent audit and unresolved access or scope.

Scope of inspection

Languages searched: Russian, Kazakh and English. Russian and Kazakh sources are labelled in the register.
Repositories queried: adilet.zan.kz and adilet.kz legal databases; the e-Qazyna Minerals platform and its published price list and accession agreement; Eurasian Electronic Portal procurement listings; Ministry, Committee and National Geological Service publications; PONEN and CIG member and tariff pages; SEC filings; and LSE/RNS issuer announcements.
Period covered: Sources from June 2016 to the evidence cut-off. The live PONEN directory count was checked on 4 September 2026.
Access constraints: Material behind the Minerals platform authentication layer, procurement attachments requiring authorisation, unpublished contract and tender documentation, and any GKZ or KAZRC report not placed in the public domain were not inspected. The public procurement listings disclosed the service description, values, bid counts and outcomes; supplier identity and detailed tranche scope were not established from the accessible material. S13 S14
Direct enquiries: None made for this edition. Report counts, delivery figures and completion claims are taken from the cited publications as reported.
Effect on findings: Every “not established” below describes this inspected record. It does not assert that no unpublished evidence exists.

Priority digitisation tranche

4.819m

primary units reported digitised; “100%” refers to the planned priority tranche.
Established in the public record S1 S2
Government self-reported delivery figure; not independently audited.

Secondary archive

66,100

first volumes, plus about 109,500 study contours, reported on the system.
Established in the public record S1
Government self-reported delivery figure; not independently audited.

KAZRC uptake

>380

accepted reports by October 2025—not necessarily unique deposits.
Established in the public record S9
Industry-body reporting; counts accepted reports, not unique deposits.

Eligible CP pool

Not established

106 self-certified CPs in 2023; >80 report authors and 40 QMR holders in April 2025; 522 total members displayed in September 2026. These are not a current eligible-signatory count.
Not established S7 S8 S16 S17
Capacity risk. Confirm current eligible signatories by commodity and specialty before scheduling.

GKZ-only share

Not established

No public deposit/report crosswalk or valid national denominator was found. Accepted-report counts cannot be converted into a share of the state balance. Accordingly, no defensible national percentage, valuation adjustment or conversion schedule can be inferred from the public record.
Not established
No reconciled national denominator; no public deposit or report crosswalk found.

Professional-body boundary: PONEN is the established professional body in the KAZRC framework reviewed here; CIG states that it received KAZRC RPO status on 23 May 2025. The latter is organisational self-reporting. S7 S15 S39 No public current eligible-signatory total, specialty breakdown, backlog or lead-time series was found, so project schedules require direct confirmation. Commercial implication: confirm eligible specialists, reader availability and lead times before setting a work programme.

Archive custody and reporting responsibility

State workstream

Ministry / NGS / IAC

Mandate: scan, structure and provide access to the geological archive through state systems. S10 S11

Funding evidenced: primary-data digitisation is linked to subsoil users’ 1% R&D obligation; broader geological work has state-budget funding. S12 S1

Applicant workstream

Rights holder / CP / RPO reader

Mandate: validate the database, estimate and classify the deposit, prepare the KAZRC report and seek state-accounting acceptance. S3 S4

Cost boundary: published schedules cover report review only; they do not price the underlying technical restatement. S40 S41

Original platform • 2023Digital Ministry / KGS

The original Minerals.gov.kz platform was developed under the then Digital Development ministry and entered industrial operation under Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary order No. 129-P of 23 June 2023. S42 S43

Migration • Oct–Nov 2024Minerals.e-Qazyna.kz

The old portal was taken offline during migration; users were required to re-register using a Kazakhstan electronic digital signature. S44

Current operating splitMinistry / IAC / NGS

The ministry and Committee own the policy environment, IAC operates user access, and NGS manages geological-fund and archive workflows. KGS is not presented as the current platform operator. S10 S11

Scope of the public record: the inspected sources show state archive work and applicant-led reporting. No national portfolio-restatement mandate, budget, timetable or delivery contract was evidenced.

The evidence gap after scanning

Published records describe scanning, structuring and early machine-readable processing at different scales. The next enquiry is which archived objects can be retrieved and used.

Scanned

4,818,836 priority units were reported digitised by 2 September 2026. “100%” refers to the defined priority tranche. S1 S2 Government self-reported delivery figure; covers the defined priority tranche only.

Established

Structured

66,100 first volumes and about 109,500 study contours were reported on the system. Archive-wide structuring status was not established. S1 S45 Component counts reported; archive-wide structuring status not established.

Partially established

Machine-readable

About 1 TB of an approximately 250 TB source corpus had reportedly been processed and human-checked by April 2026. S22 Early deployment; about 1 TB of an approximately 250 TB source corpus.

Partially established

KAZRC restatement

Applicant workstream

Deposit-specific professional reporting, separate from the archive digitisation programme.

Established in the public record S3 S4 S9
Legal route and reporting uptake evidenced; portfolio coverage not established.

Corpus, funding and procurement evidence

Approximate composition of the >4.8m-unit corpus

Published rounded components total approximately 4.814 million; they should not be presented as an audited reconciliation to the exact 4,818,836 figure.

Paper sheets ~4.3 million · Graphics ~355,000 · Magnetic tapes ~97,000 · Cartridges ~62,000.

Government self-report, 2 September 2026. S1

Machine-readable processing

About 1 TB of an approximately 250 TB source corpus had reportedly been processed and human-checked by April 2026. This is an early-deployment measure, not the archive-scanning total.

Partially established S22
Part-delivered; the remainder of the corpus is planned rather than processed.

Funding evidence

The ministry links primary-data digitisation to subsoil users’ 1% R&D obligation. S12 The Government reports a broader KZT62.4bn geological-work envelope for 2024–2026; it does not identify that amount as a digitisation budget. S1

Established in the public record
Funding route evidenced; no separate digitisation budget line identified.

Procurement evidence

A 2025 NGS digitisation tender capped at KZT112.900m received no bids. S13 A later single-source procedure with the same service description was listed as completed on 29 September 2025 at KZT112.201m, with one bid—99.4% of the earlier cap. S14 The public listing exposed the outcome, but its result attachment required authorisation; supplier identity, detailed tranche scope and contribution to the wider programme were not established.

Scale guard: KZT112.201m is one evidenced procurement procedure, not a national programme benchmark. Its contribution to a corpus of 4.8 million units and roughly 250 TB was not established, and no consolidated procurement total was found. S1 S22

Partially established
Tender sequence established; supplier identity, detailed scope and consolidated procurement total not established.

Historical operating evidence • February 2024

Digitised material was “still sitting on hard drives”—not yet loaded into the platform.Erlan Galiev, Chairman of the Management Board, National Geological Service, February 2024; translated from Russian. S45

Why it matters: Galiev explained that scanned files could not simply be tipped into the system in bulk—they require cartographic referencing, visualisation of geophysical material, structuring, cataloguing and metadata before they are usable to an investor. He also said NGS would likely need an external vendor for the IT build, noting that Finland’s GTK developed its equivalent in-house over roughly twenty years. This supports a staged archive workflow—scanned → structured and queryable → machine-readable. KAZRC restatement is a separate applicant-led process, not the next automatic archive milestone. S45 S3 S4 The reported 100% completion covers scanning only. S1 S2 The testimony is dated February 2024 and may since have advanced; archive-wide structuring at the evidence cut-off was not established.

External-partner context: Galiev also reported continuing cooperation with the British Geological Survey, including several meetings and calls over the preceding six months. The cited article says the interaction roadmap also covered raw-material processing and plant construction and that a UK business visit was planned for March 2024. It does not identify BGS funding, a contract or a completed digitisation deliverable. S45

KAZRC acceptance within a hybrid register

The June 2016 KAZRC Code established Kazakhstan’s national public-reporting standard. S15 Kazakhstan was admitted as CRIRSCO’s tenth member that month. S6 Resolution No. 874, dated 23 October 2024, governs the deposit-level route into state accounting. S3

GKZ or KAZRC route

Mining rights issued before 31 Dec 2023

Legacy mining licences/contracts may use state GKZ examination or a KAZRC report, subject to their facts. S3

KAZRC route

Later mining rights + exploration rights

Later mining licences and exploration licences/contracts use KAZRC for the relevant state-accounting process. S3

Applicant files

Deposit/object-specific KAZRC report and supporting information.

Professional evidence

CP membership, positive reader outcome, coordinates and comparison table.

Authority reviews

30 calendar days; a decrease above 25% triggers a hearing.

Account changes

Accepted KAZRC information enters state accounting; corresponding GKZ information is written off.

Process and timing summary: Government Resolution No. 874 and the Committee’s implementation algorithm. S3 S4

Why the register remains hybrid: the accounting rules maintain GKZ and KAZRC solid-mineral information separately. S3 S4 S5

Active GKZ evidence: on 2 September 2026, the Government reported C2-category reserves of 795,800 tonnes at the Irgiz rare-earth area. This is current official use—not merely a historical archive label. S1

Reporting snapshots leave deposit coverage unresolved

KAZRC institutional and reporting milestones

InstitutionJune 2016

CRIRSCO membership

Kazakhstan admitted as the tenth CRIRSCO member through its national reporting framework. S6

ReportingEnd-2022

80 reports

Early public snapshot of KAZRC reporting activity. S7

Non-comparableReported July 2024

130 received

One industry article said 130 were received during 2019–2024; another reported 122 accepted. The 130 count was not unequivocally tied to 30 April. S37 S38

Legal rule23 Oct 2024

Resolution No. 874

Formal transition rules define when GKZ or KAZRC accounting may apply. S3

ReportingApril 2025

228 reports

MINEX snapshot indicates faster operational uptake. S8

Implementation24 July 2025

Accounting algorithm

Committee publishes the administrative process for KAZRC state accounting. S4

Reporting16 Oct 2025

>380 reports

Latest evidenced public report-count snapshot. S9

Unresolved4 Sep 2026

Hybrid register

No published national conversion timetable or GKZ-only proportion was evidenced. No later public report-count snapshot was located in the inspected record, leaving almost eleven months between the October 2025 count and the evidence cut-off.

Interpretation boundary: report counts are source snapshots—not counts of unique deposits, reserve conversions or the proportion of the state balance restated. The 130 point is described as “received”; the other headline points are reported as “accepted.” Do not calculate growth rates without a reconciled register and consistent acceptance criteria.

Not established

A national GKZ-only percentage cannot be calculated: the roughly 10,000-deposit figure includes many mineral types. S1 Published KAZRC totals count reports rather than unique deposits. S7 S8 S9 A dated state-balance crosswalk is required.

No public evidence supports a standard Soviet-to-CRIRSCO adjustment. The sources reviewed support no 15–35% shrinkage range, deposit-type conversion percentages or default 20% valuation haircut. Aiat shows that reserves can reduce and inventory can move to resources, but the outcome is deposit-specific. S18

What named cases establish about commercial use

The cases link reporting to state accounting, transaction conditions and the use of historical data. Their evidence is specific to the named assets.

illustrative cases in the inspected sample; some cover multiple deposits.

KAZRC entries expressly reported in state accounting: Aiat and Baksy. S18 S19

National share of the Soviet-era state balance restated.

Not established

Iron ore

Aiat

A KAZRC restatement entered the state balance in Q1 2025. Reporting said it materially reduced reserves and moved part of the historical inventory to resources. Established in the public record

Qualitative public example; no universal percentage follows. S18

Gold–copper

Baksy

A KAZRC estimate was reported as entered into state accounting in November 2023. Established in the public record

Early corporate-led deposit example. S19

Manganese + gold–copper

Borly and Zhambas

A March 2026 conditional acquisition presented Borly with KAZRC figures and Zhambas with 700 kg C2 gold. Initial consideration was US$25m for Kazikhan; up to US$20m additional consideration was tied to gold certified within five years. Partially established

The US$25m was not publicly allocated solely to Borly, and C2 was not described as “unbankable.” The issuer expressly said neither cited reserve figure had been prepared to JORC. Company self-report; related-party and other conditions applied. S20

Gold

Tokhtar / South Tokhtar / Barambay

Solidcore’s staged ownership increases were tied to later KAZRC reserve milestones, illustrating compliant reporting as a transaction condition. Established in the public record

Company transaction disclosure. S31

Vanadium

Balasausqandiq

The company’s project page reports a 32.89 Mt indicated resource at 0.62% V₂O₅ for OB1; a 2025 issuer announcement also referred to a larger >70 Mt Kazakhstan-system inventory across OB1–5. Partially established

The larger local inventory cannot substitute for current international reporting. S32 S33

Copper–gold

Beskauga

The NI 43-101 / S-K 1300 record used 2007–2017 historical holes alongside new drilling, data review and QA/QC. The filed technical report states that Soviet drillhole locations and data were unavailable and excluded. Established in the public record

This is selective reuse of demonstrated post-Soviet data—not evidence that Soviet drill data were converted. Soviet mapping and regional information remained useful for targeting. S34 S35

Access and review tariffs cover only part of the work

01 • Platform access

25 MRP / year

The published tariff is 25 MRP for 365 days; at the official 2026 MRP of KZT4,325, this is KZT108,125. S24 S25 The cited tariff and accession agreement evidence platform access; they do not establish a document-republication licence or a reserve restatement. S24 S26 The current rules prescribe up to 15 working days for portal access or copies. S27 S28

02 • Reader review

PONEN: 60–100 MRP · CIG: KZT700k

PONEN recommends KZT259,500–432,500 for reviewing a combined mineral-resource-and-reserve report, depending on length. S40 CIG states a KZT700,000 rate, excluding taxes and mandatory deductions. S41 CIG’s RPO status is organisational self-report. S39

03 • Technical restatement

Deposit-specific

No defensible public unit cost was found. CP work, database validation, modelling, re-assay, drilling, metallurgy, engineering and modifying-factor studies are additional and may dominate the budget.

Archive access and automation evidence

Foreign access

Confirm first

Non-resident BIN/EDS routes exist, but direct Minerals-platform acceptance for a foreign parent was not confirmed. S26 S29 S30 As a practical assessment—not a legal requirement established by those sources—a Kazakhstan subsidiary/branch or properly mandated local agent is the lowest-friction route.

State AI

OCR + GIS

Up to 90% recognition was claimed with manual correction. Ministry, NGS and Astana Hub are named, with EPAM participation and QazTech/AlemCloud infrastructure. No component was evidenced as reserve classification. S21 S23

Dated user-side case evidence • Almaty branch, February 2024

Registration answers whether a foreign entity may request data. It does not establish how the archive performs in practice.

Scope: one named company representative’s account concerning one regional branch, before the e-Qazyna migration. It is not evidence of current or nationwide service performance.

At a Kazakhstan Mining Chamber conference in February 2024, Alexander Prushinsky of Rio Tinto Exploration Kazakhstan stated publicly that the company had been unable to obtain certain study-coverage cartograms required to prepare an exploration plan from the NGS Almaty branch; that the archives there were held in sacks in no order, unlike the Karaganda and East Kazakhstan funds he had worked with; that stated timeframes were not being met; and that a request for elementary groundwater-deposit information, with an urgency fee paid, took at least two weeks. The NGS chairman, responding at the same session, cited retrieval times of ten working days for primary information—two days where a report is already scanned—and five working days for secondary. S45

Timing context: the two-, five- and ten-day figures were NGS-reported operating periods in February 2024. S45 Order No. 258, effective 1 August 2025, subsequently established a 15-working-day legal maximum for portal access or copies and for primary-information duplicates, with no more than ten reports supplied to one subsoil user within that period. S28 The two measures are not directly comparable: one describes reported operating periods; the other is a later legal ceiling. No current performance data against that ceiling was found.

Tungsten financing is described in letters of interest—not as committed financing. An April 2026 SEC-filed issuer release said EXIM and DFC had issued letters of interest of up to US$900m and US$700m for North Katpar / Upper Kairakty, supported by JORC-compliant mineral resources containing approximately 1.4 Mt WO₃. The filing did not evidence executed loan agreements or drawn funds and included forward-looking risk qualifications. S36

Documents needed to scope commercial reliance

Use the requests below to scope data validation, professional work, retrieval and cost for an asset or portfolio. Published national totals cannot substitute for those records.

Dated archive manifest and usability status

A deduplicated manifest linking stable report and volume identifiers to scan, structuring, OCR, georeferencing, platform availability, restriction status and quality-control fields.

Deposit-level GKZ/KAZRC crosswalk

For each deposit: state-balance entry and GKZ protocol, signed KAZRC report and effective date, CP and reader standing, acceptance outcome, and reconciliation of quantities and categories.

Current CP/QMR capacity and lead times

A dated roster of eligible specialists by commodity and method, with RPO standing, current commitments, conflicts, reader capacity, backlog and evidenced delivery periods.

Scoped restatement and retrieval evidence

Itemised quotations for database validation, CP work, modelling, re-assay, drilling and modifying-factor studies, together with a tested access route, retrieval outcomes and applicable use terms.

Prepared by Aletheia GI Ltd. Registered in England & Wales No.: 17051441. Assessment of public evidence—not a reserve estimate, legal opinion or investment recommendation. Evidence cut-off: 4 September 2026. Each brief in this series carries its own cut-off date.

Cited source register

Every inline S-reference resolves here; uncited background items are excluded. Primary and near-primary sources are prioritised, and Russian and Kazakh sources are labelled. Language and dates are stated where identified. “Checked” dates are access dates, not publication dates. Government and company delivery figures are self-reported unless independently stated.

Cited source register

S1. Government review: archive, Irgiz and geological workshttps://primeminister.kz/ru/news/reviews/poslanie-prezidenta-za-dva-goda-v-kazahstane-otkryto-54-novyh-mestorozhdeniya-31833Russian · 2 Sep 2026
S2. Committee statement reported by DK News: 4,818,836 priority unitshttps://dknews.kz/ru/v-strane/399490-kazahstan-polnostyu-ocifroval-geologicheskiy-arhivRussian · 4 Aug 2026
S3. Government Resolution No. 874https://primeminister.kz/assets/media/prilozhenie-rus2.pdfRussian PDF · 23 Oct 2024
S4. Committee algorithm for KAZRC state accountinghttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/geology/documents/details/874851?lang=ruRussian · 24 Jul 2025
S5. SPINFORM legal-database copy: state-accounting rules, consolidated texthttps://base.spinform.ru/show_doc.fwx?rgn=107851Russian
S6. SRK: Kazakhstan admitted as the tenth CRIRSCO memberhttps://www.srk.com/en/press-releases/criisco-welcomes-kazakhstan-as-10th-memberJune 2016
S7. PONEN / MINEX 2023: 80 reports, membership and CP snapshothttps://ponen.kz/en/news/press/perehod-na-standarti-kazrc--ozhidaniya-i-riski-minex-2023English · published 2 Apr 2024; figures as at 1 Apr 2023 and end-2022
S8. PONEN / MINEX 2025: 228 reports, CP participation and QMRhttps://ponen.kz/news/articles/ponen-at-minex-kazakhstan-2025-ethics-competence-and-implementation-oRussian · 22 Apr 2025; event held 9 Apr 2025
S9. AGMP: ten years of KAZRC/PONEN; >380 reportshttps://agmp.kz/kazrc-i-ponen-desyat-let-sistemnyh-izmenenij/Russian · 16 Oct 2025
S10. Minerals platform and operator pagehttps://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/startRussian
S11. NGS mass-digitisation launchhttps://primeminister.kz/ru/news/ngs-zapuskaet-masshtabnuyu-otsifrovku-geologicheskikh-dannykh-kazakhstana-29412Russian · 3 Dec 2024
S12. Ministry Big Data programme and 1% R&D funding routehttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mps/press/news/details/1148372?lang=ruRussian
S13. NGS tender: digitisation of primary geological information; zero bidshttps://eep.mitwork.kz/ru/publics/buy/162746Russian · preliminary discussion opened 30 Jun 2025; listing shows zero applications
S14. NGS single-source digitisation procedure: KZT112.201m; one bidhttps://eep.mitwork.kz/ru/publics/buy/170008Russian · completed 29 Sep 2025; result attachment requires authorisation
S15. KAZRC Code, English versionhttps://mrmr.cim.org/media/1055/5110-kazrac-june-2016.pdfEnglish PDF · June 2016
S16. PONEN public member directory: 522 members displayed at evidence cut-offhttps://ponen.kz/become-member/membersRussian · checked 4 Sep 2026
S17. PONEN QMR page: QMR described as additional accreditationhttps://ponen.kz/become-member/accreditationRussian
S18. Aiat KAZRC restatementhttps://kz.kursiv.media/2025-06-04/zhnb-ergcopperfound/Russian · 4 Jun 2025
S19. Baksy KAZRC state-account entryhttps://inbusiness.kz/ru/news/solidcore-resources-postavil-zapasy-zoloto-mednogo-mestorozhdeniya-baksy-na-gosbalansRussian · 13 Jun 2024; reporting a company briefing
S20. Caspian Sunrise / Kazikhan acquisition announcementhttps://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/caspian-sunrise--casp/acquisition-of-mineral-assets/948563923 Mar 2026
S21. Ministry’s up-to-90% AI recognition claimhttps://kz.kursiv.media/2025-04-09/zhnb-aigeoinform/Russian · 9 Apr 2025
S22. 1 TB of ~250 TB processed; Ulytau model claimhttps://kz.kursiv.media/2026-04-28/zhzh-ai-pomog-naiti-mestorozhdenie-medi/Russian · 28 Apr 2026
S23. Ministry AI participants and planned outputshttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mps/press/news/details/1196715?lang=ruRussian · 2026
S24. Minerals price list: 25 MRPhttps://e-qazyna.kz/files/minerals/price.pdfRussian PDF
S25. Official 2026 MRP: KZT4,325https://www.gov.kz/article/17157
S26. Minerals accession agreementhttps://e-qazyna.kz/files/minerals/agreement.pdfRussian PDF · 20 May 2026
S27. Adilet.kz legal-database copy: consolidated geological-information provision ruleshttps://adilet.kz/ru/laws/doc-122668/Russian · Order No. 380 of 24 May 2018; edition shown 20 Mar 2026
S28. Order No. 258 amending geological-information provision ruleshttps://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/V2500036455Russian · adopted 14 Jul 2025; effective 1 Aug 2025
S29. National Certification Authority: non-resident EDS routehttps://pki.gov.kz/ru/nonresidents/Russian
S30. eGov: tax registration/BIN for a foreign legal entityhttps://beta.egov.kz/services/3481
S31. Solidcore issuer release: Tokhtar acquisition milestoneshttps://www.solidcore-resources.com/upload/ib/695736/2025_03_11_Tokhtar_eng_final.pdfEnglish PDF · 11 Mar 2025
S32. Ferro-Alloy Resources: Balasausqandiq project pagehttps://www.ferro-alloy.com/the-project/English · undated live page, checked 4 Sep 2026
S33. LSE/RNS: Balasausqandiq framework announcementhttps://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/FAR/framework-agreement-for-phase-1-of-balasausqandiq/17063399English · issuer announcement, 2 Jun 2025
S34. SEC-filed Beskauga S-K 1300 technical report summaryhttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1855743/000155335021000549/ex17x1.htm?hl=en-USEnglish · final 23 Jun 2021
S35. Arras Minerals: Beskauga NI 43-101 resource announcementhttps://www.arrasminerals.com/arras-minerals-files-ni43-101-resource-of-1-75-million-ounces-of-gold-333-6-thousand-tonnes-of-copper-in-the-indicated-category-and-1-49-million-ounces-of-gold-222-2-thousand-tonnes-of-copper-iEnglish · 20 Jun 2022
S36. SEC filing: North Katpar / Upper Kairakty financing lettershttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2031009/000121390026049721/ea028844601ex99-1.htmApr 2026
S37. DProm: 130 KAZRC reports received during 2019–2024https://dprom.kz/goryachie-stranitsy/kodeks-kazrc-standart-otsenke-zapasov/Russian · 8 Jul 2024; industry report quoting PONEN chair
S38. AGMP: 122 KAZRC reports acceptedhttps://agmpnews.kz/novye-zadachi-novye-chleny-assocziaczii-kazrc-v-2024-godu/Russian · 2024 industry account
S39. CIG announcement of KAZRC RPO statushttps://cig.org.kz/tpost/k6zcjzfuj1-cig-poluchilo-ofitsialnii-status-priznanRussian · 23 May 2025; organisational self-report
S40. PONEN recommended 2026 reader-review rateshttps://admin.ponen.kz/uploads/files/libraryDocuments/2026_rekomenduemye_stavki_oplaty_za_proverku_otchetov_riderami.pdfRussian PDF · 2026 schedule
S41. CIG 2026 reader-review ratehttps://cig.org.kz/reportsRussian · 2026 schedule; organisational publication
S42. State development plan recording KGS order No. 129-P for industrial operationhttps://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P2300000232Russian
S43. Digital Development ministry account of the original Minerals.gov.kz platformhttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/maidd/press/news/details/684358Kazakh
S44. Committee notice: migration to minerals.e-qazyna.kz and EDS re-registrationhttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/geology/press/news/details/867836?lang=ruRussian · Oct 2024
S45. Inbusiness.kz: NGS chairman on structuring primary data, vendor selection, retrieval times, archive-access complaints and BGS engagementhttps://www.inbusiness.kz/ru/news/nacgeosluzhba-razrabotaet-eshe-odnu-bazu-geologicheskih-dannyhRussian · 27 Feb 2024; conference reporting, includes Rio Tinto Exploration Kazakhstan statement

Reported progress and unresolved coverage

Counts below describe different things. Primary units, first volumes, accepted reports and unique deposits must not be treated as one conversion series.

Established in the inspected public record Partial or bounded evidence Not establishedEvidence cut-off: 4 September 2026

Scope of inspection

Languages searched: Russian, Kazakh and English. Russian and Kazakh sources are labelled in the register.
Repositories queried: adilet.zan.kz and adilet.kz legal databases; the e-Qazyna Minerals platform and its published price list and accession agreement; Eurasian Electronic Portal procurement listings; Ministry, Committee and National Geological Service publications; PONEN and CIG member and tariff pages; SEC filings; and LSE/RNS issuer announcements.
Period covered: Sources from June 2016 to the evidence cut-off. The live PONEN directory count was checked on 4 September 2026.
Access constraints: Material behind the Minerals platform authentication layer, procurement attachments requiring authorisation, unpublished contract and tender documentation, and any GKZ or KAZRC report not placed in the public domain were not inspected. The public procurement listings disclosed the service description, values, bid counts and outcomes; supplier identity and detailed tranche scope were not established from the accessible material. S13 S14
Direct enquiries: None made for this edition. Report counts, delivery figures and completion claims are taken from the cited publications as reported.
Effect on findings: Every “not established” below describes this inspected record. It does not assert that no unpublished evidence exists.

Priority digitisation tranche

4.819m

primary units reported digitised; “100%” refers to the planned priority tranche.
Established in the public record S1 S2
Government self-reported delivery figure; not independently audited.

Secondary archive

66,100

first volumes, plus about 109,500 study contours, reported on the system.
Established in the public record S1
Government self-reported delivery figure; not independently audited.

KAZRC uptake

>380

accepted reports by October 2025—not necessarily unique deposits.
Established in the public record S9
Industry-body reporting; counts accepted reports, not unique deposits.

Eligible CP pool

Not established

GKZ-only share

Not established

Archive custody and reporting responsibility

State workstream

Ministry / NGS / IAC

Mandate: scan, structure and provide access to the geological archive through state systems. S10 S11

Funding evidenced: primary-data digitisation is linked to subsoil users’ 1% R&D obligation; broader geological work has state-budget funding. S12 S1

Applicant workstream

Rights holder / CP / RPO reader

Mandate: validate the database, estimate and classify the deposit, prepare the KAZRC report and seek state-accounting acceptance. S3 S4

Cost boundary: published schedules cover report review only; they do not price the underlying technical restatement. S40 S41

Original platform • 2023Digital Ministry / KGS

Migration • Oct–Nov 2024Minerals.e-Qazyna.kz

The old portal was taken offline during migration; users were required to re-register using a Kazakhstan electronic digital signature. S44

Current operating splitMinistry / IAC / NGS

The ministry and Committee own the policy environment, IAC operates user access, and NGS manages geological-fund and archive workflows. KGS is not presented as the current platform operator. S10 S11

The evidence gap after scanning

Published records describe scanning, structuring and early machine-readable processing at different scales. The next enquiry is which archived objects can be retrieved and used.

Scanned

Established

Structured

Partially established

Machine-readable

About 1 TB of an approximately 250 TB source corpus had reportedly been processed and human-checked by April 2026. S22 Early deployment; about 1 TB of an approximately 250 TB source corpus.

Partially established

KAZRC restatement

Applicant workstream

Deposit-specific professional reporting, separate from the archive digitisation programme.

Established in the public record S3 S4 S9
Legal route and reporting uptake evidenced; portfolio coverage not established.

Corpus, funding and procurement evidence

Approximate composition of the >4.8m-unit corpus

Published rounded components total approximately 4.814 million; they should not be presented as an audited reconciliation to the exact 4,818,836 figure.

Paper sheets ~4.3 million · Graphics ~355,000 · Magnetic tapes ~97,000 · Cartridges ~62,000.

Government self-report, 2 September 2026. S1

Machine-readable processing

About 1 TB of an approximately 250 TB source corpus had reportedly been processed and human-checked by April 2026. This is an early-deployment measure, not the archive-scanning total.

Partially established S22
Part-delivered; the remainder of the corpus is planned rather than processed.

Funding evidence

Established in the public record
Funding route evidenced; no separate digitisation budget line identified.

Procurement evidence

Partially established
Tender sequence established; supplier identity, detailed scope and consolidated procurement total not established.

Historical operating evidence • February 2024

Digitised material was “still sitting on hard drives”—not yet loaded into the platform.Erlan Galiev, Chairman of the Management Board, National Geological Service, February 2024; translated from Russian. S45

KAZRC acceptance within a hybrid register

GKZ or KAZRC route

Mining rights issued before 31 Dec 2023

Legacy mining licences/contracts may use state GKZ examination or a KAZRC report, subject to their facts. S3

KAZRC route

Later mining rights + exploration rights

Later mining licences and exploration licences/contracts use KAZRC for the relevant state-accounting process. S3

Applicant files

Deposit/object-specific KAZRC report and supporting information.

Professional evidence

CP membership, positive reader outcome, coordinates and comparison table.

Authority reviews

30 calendar days; a decrease above 25% triggers a hearing.

Account changes

Accepted KAZRC information enters state accounting; corresponding GKZ information is written off.

Process and timing summary: Government Resolution No. 874 and the Committee’s implementation algorithm. S3 S4

Why the register remains hybrid: the accounting rules maintain GKZ and KAZRC solid-mineral information separately. S3 S4 S5

Reporting snapshots leave deposit coverage unresolved

KAZRC institutional and reporting milestones

InstitutionJune 2016

CRIRSCO membership

Kazakhstan admitted as the tenth CRIRSCO member through its national reporting framework. S6

ReportingEnd-2022

80 reports

Early public snapshot of KAZRC reporting activity. S7

Non-comparableReported July 2024

130 received

One industry article said 130 were received during 2019–2024; another reported 122 accepted. The 130 count was not unequivocally tied to 30 April. S37 S38

Legal rule23 Oct 2024

Resolution No. 874

Formal transition rules define when GKZ or KAZRC accounting may apply. S3

ReportingApril 2025

228 reports

MINEX snapshot indicates faster operational uptake. S8

Implementation24 July 2025

Accounting algorithm

Committee publishes the administrative process for KAZRC state accounting. S4

Reporting16 Oct 2025

>380 reports

Latest evidenced public report-count snapshot. S9

Unresolved4 Sep 2026

Hybrid register

Not established

What named cases establish about commercial use

The cases link reporting to state accounting, transaction conditions and the use of historical data. Their evidence is specific to the named assets.

illustrative cases in the inspected sample; some cover multiple deposits.

KAZRC entries expressly reported in state accounting: Aiat and Baksy. S18 S19

National share of the Soviet-era state balance restated.

Not established

Iron ore

Aiat

A KAZRC restatement entered the state balance in Q1 2025. Reporting said it materially reduced reserves and moved part of the historical inventory to resources. Established in the public record

Qualitative public example; no universal percentage follows. S18

Gold–copper

Baksy

A KAZRC estimate was reported as entered into state accounting in November 2023. Established in the public record

Early corporate-led deposit example. S19

Manganese + gold–copper

Borly and Zhambas

Gold

Tokhtar / South Tokhtar / Barambay

Solidcore’s staged ownership increases were tied to later KAZRC reserve milestones, illustrating compliant reporting as a transaction condition. Established in the public record

Company transaction disclosure. S31

Vanadium

Balasausqandiq

The larger local inventory cannot substitute for current international reporting. S32 S33

Copper–gold

Beskauga

This is selective reuse of demonstrated post-Soviet data—not evidence that Soviet drill data were converted. Soviet mapping and regional information remained useful for targeting. S34 S35

Access and review tariffs cover only part of the work

01 • Platform access

25 MRP / year

02 • Reader review

PONEN: 60–100 MRP · CIG: KZT700k

03 • Technical restatement

Deposit-specific

No defensible public unit cost was found. CP work, database validation, modelling, re-assay, drilling, metallurgy, engineering and modifying-factor studies are additional and may dominate the budget.

Archive access and automation evidence

Foreign access

Confirm first

State AI

OCR + GIS

Dated user-side case evidence • Almaty branch, February 2024

Registration answers whether a foreign entity may request data. It does not establish how the archive performs in practice.

Scope: one named company representative’s account concerning one regional branch, before the e-Qazyna migration. It is not evidence of current or nationwide service performance.

Documents needed to scope commercial reliance

Use the requests below to scope data validation, professional work, retrieval and cost for an asset or portfolio. Published national totals cannot substitute for those records.

Dated archive manifest and usability status

A deduplicated manifest linking stable report and volume identifiers to scan, structuring, OCR, georeferencing, platform availability, restriction status and quality-control fields.

Deposit-level GKZ/KAZRC crosswalk

For each deposit: state-balance entry and GKZ protocol, signed KAZRC report and effective date, CP and reader standing, acceptance outcome, and reconciliation of quantities and categories.

Current CP/QMR capacity and lead times

A dated roster of eligible specialists by commodity and method, with RPO standing, current commitments, conflicts, reader capacity, backlog and evidenced delivery periods.

Scoped restatement and retrieval evidence

Itemised quotations for database validation, CP work, modelling, re-assay, drilling and modifying-factor studies, together with a tested access route, retrieval outcomes and applicable use terms.

Cited source register

S1. Government review: archive, Irgiz and geological workshttps://primeminister.kz/ru/news/reviews/poslanie-prezidenta-za-dva-goda-v-kazahstane-otkryto-54-novyh-mestorozhdeniya-31833Russian · 2 Sep 2026
S2. Committee statement reported by DK News: 4,818,836 priority unitshttps://dknews.kz/ru/v-strane/399490-kazahstan-polnostyu-ocifroval-geologicheskiy-arhivRussian · 4 Aug 2026
S3. Government Resolution No. 874https://primeminister.kz/assets/media/prilozhenie-rus2.pdfRussian PDF · 23 Oct 2024
S4. Committee algorithm for KAZRC state accountinghttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/geology/documents/details/874851?lang=ruRussian · 24 Jul 2025
S5. SPINFORM legal-database copy: state-accounting rules, consolidated texthttps://base.spinform.ru/show_doc.fwx?rgn=107851Russian
S6. SRK: Kazakhstan admitted as the tenth CRIRSCO memberhttps://www.srk.com/en/press-releases/criisco-welcomes-kazakhstan-as-10th-memberJune 2016
S7. PONEN / MINEX 2023: 80 reports, membership and CP snapshothttps://ponen.kz/en/news/press/perehod-na-standarti-kazrc--ozhidaniya-i-riski-minex-2023English · published 2 Apr 2024; figures as at 1 Apr 2023 and end-2022
S8. PONEN / MINEX 2025: 228 reports, CP participation and QMRhttps://ponen.kz/news/articles/ponen-at-minex-kazakhstan-2025-ethics-competence-and-implementation-oRussian · 22 Apr 2025; event held 9 Apr 2025
S9. AGMP: ten years of KAZRC/PONEN; >380 reportshttps://agmp.kz/kazrc-i-ponen-desyat-let-sistemnyh-izmenenij/Russian · 16 Oct 2025
S10. Minerals platform and operator pagehttps://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/ru/startRussian
S11. NGS mass-digitisation launchhttps://primeminister.kz/ru/news/ngs-zapuskaet-masshtabnuyu-otsifrovku-geologicheskikh-dannykh-kazakhstana-29412Russian · 3 Dec 2024
S12. Ministry Big Data programme and 1% R&D funding routehttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mps/press/news/details/1148372?lang=ruRussian
S13. NGS tender: digitisation of primary geological information; zero bidshttps://eep.mitwork.kz/ru/publics/buy/162746Russian · preliminary discussion opened 30 Jun 2025; listing shows zero applications
S14. NGS single-source digitisation procedure: KZT112.201m; one bidhttps://eep.mitwork.kz/ru/publics/buy/170008Russian · completed 29 Sep 2025; result attachment requires authorisation
S15. KAZRC Code, English versionhttps://mrmr.cim.org/media/1055/5110-kazrac-june-2016.pdfEnglish PDF · June 2016
S16. PONEN public member directory: 522 members displayed at evidence cut-offhttps://ponen.kz/become-member/membersRussian · checked 4 Sep 2026
S17. PONEN QMR page: QMR described as additional accreditationhttps://ponen.kz/become-member/accreditationRussian
S18. Aiat KAZRC restatementhttps://kz.kursiv.media/2025-06-04/zhnb-ergcopperfound/Russian · 4 Jun 2025
S19. Baksy KAZRC state-account entryhttps://inbusiness.kz/ru/news/solidcore-resources-postavil-zapasy-zoloto-mednogo-mestorozhdeniya-baksy-na-gosbalansRussian · 13 Jun 2024; reporting a company briefing
S20. Caspian Sunrise / Kazikhan acquisition announcementhttps://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/caspian-sunrise--casp/acquisition-of-mineral-assets/948563923 Mar 2026
S21. Ministry’s up-to-90% AI recognition claimhttps://kz.kursiv.media/2025-04-09/zhnb-aigeoinform/Russian · 9 Apr 2025
S22. 1 TB of ~250 TB processed; Ulytau model claimhttps://kz.kursiv.media/2026-04-28/zhzh-ai-pomog-naiti-mestorozhdenie-medi/Russian · 28 Apr 2026
S23. Ministry AI participants and planned outputshttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mps/press/news/details/1196715?lang=ruRussian · 2026
S24. Minerals price list: 25 MRPhttps://e-qazyna.kz/files/minerals/price.pdfRussian PDF
S25. Official 2026 MRP: KZT4,325https://www.gov.kz/article/17157
S26. Minerals accession agreementhttps://e-qazyna.kz/files/minerals/agreement.pdfRussian PDF · 20 May 2026
S27. Adilet.kz legal-database copy: consolidated geological-information provision ruleshttps://adilet.kz/ru/laws/doc-122668/Russian · Order No. 380 of 24 May 2018; edition shown 20 Mar 2026
S28. Order No. 258 amending geological-information provision ruleshttps://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/V2500036455Russian · adopted 14 Jul 2025; effective 1 Aug 2025
S29. National Certification Authority: non-resident EDS routehttps://pki.gov.kz/ru/nonresidents/Russian
S30. eGov: tax registration/BIN for a foreign legal entityhttps://beta.egov.kz/services/3481
S31. Solidcore issuer release: Tokhtar acquisition milestoneshttps://www.solidcore-resources.com/upload/ib/695736/2025_03_11_Tokhtar_eng_final.pdfEnglish PDF · 11 Mar 2025
S32. Ferro-Alloy Resources: Balasausqandiq project pagehttps://www.ferro-alloy.com/the-project/English · undated live page, checked 4 Sep 2026
S33. LSE/RNS: Balasausqandiq framework announcementhttps://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/FAR/framework-agreement-for-phase-1-of-balasausqandiq/17063399English · issuer announcement, 2 Jun 2025
S34. SEC-filed Beskauga S-K 1300 technical report summaryhttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1855743/000155335021000549/ex17x1.htm?hl=en-USEnglish · final 23 Jun 2021
S35. Arras Minerals: Beskauga NI 43-101 resource announcementhttps://www.arrasminerals.com/arras-minerals-files-ni43-101-resource-of-1-75-million-ounces-of-gold-333-6-thousand-tonnes-of-copper-in-the-indicated-category-and-1-49-million-ounces-of-gold-222-2-thousand-tonnes-of-copper-iEnglish · 20 Jun 2022
S36. SEC filing: North Katpar / Upper Kairakty financing lettershttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2031009/000121390026049721/ea028844601ex99-1.htmApr 2026
S37. DProm: 130 KAZRC reports received during 2019–2024https://dprom.kz/goryachie-stranitsy/kodeks-kazrc-standart-otsenke-zapasov/Russian · 8 Jul 2024; industry report quoting PONEN chair
S38. AGMP: 122 KAZRC reports acceptedhttps://agmpnews.kz/novye-zadachi-novye-chleny-assocziaczii-kazrc-v-2024-godu/Russian · 2024 industry account
S39. CIG announcement of KAZRC RPO statushttps://cig.org.kz/tpost/k6zcjzfuj1-cig-poluchilo-ofitsialnii-status-priznanRussian · 23 May 2025; organisational self-report
S40. PONEN recommended 2026 reader-review rateshttps://admin.ponen.kz/uploads/files/libraryDocuments/2026_rekomenduemye_stavki_oplaty_za_proverku_otchetov_riderami.pdfRussian PDF · 2026 schedule
S41. CIG 2026 reader-review ratehttps://cig.org.kz/reportsRussian · 2026 schedule; organisational publication
S42. State development plan recording KGS order No. 129-P for industrial operationhttps://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P2300000232Russian
S43. Digital Development ministry account of the original Minerals.gov.kz platformhttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/maidd/press/news/details/684358Kazakh
S44. Committee notice: migration to minerals.e-qazyna.kz and EDS re-registrationhttps://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/geology/press/news/details/867836?lang=ruRussian · Oct 2024
S45. Inbusiness.kz: NGS chairman on structuring primary data, vendor selection, retrieval times, archive-access complaints and BGS engagementhttps://www.inbusiness.kz/ru/news/nacgeosluzhba-razrabotaet-eshe-odnu-bazu-geologicheskih-dannyhRussian · 27 Feb 2024; conference reporting, includes Rio Tinto Exploration Kazakhstan statement

KAZRC uptake is documented.Public deposit coverage remains unresolved.

Reported progress and unresolved coverage

Scope of inspection

Archive custody and reporting responsibility

Ministry / NGS / IAC

Rights holder / CP / RPO reader

The evidence gap after scanning

Scanned

Structured

Machine-readable

KAZRC restatement

Corpus, funding and procurement evidence

Approximate composition of the >4.8m-unit corpus

Machine-readable processing

Funding evidence

Procurement evidence

KAZRC acceptance within a hybrid register

GKZ or KAZRC route

KAZRC route

Applicant files

Professional evidence

Authority reviews

Account changes

Reporting snapshots leave deposit coverage unresolved

KAZRC institutional and reporting milestones

CRIRSCO membership

80 reports

130 received

Resolution No. 874

228 reports

Accounting algorithm

>380 reports

Hybrid register

Not established

What named cases establish about commercial use

Aiat

Baksy

Borly and Zhambas

Tokhtar / South Tokhtar / Barambay

Balasausqandiq

Beskauga

Access and review tariffs cover only part of the work

Archive access and automation evidence

Foreign access

State AI

Documents needed to scope commercial reliance

Dated archive manifest and usability status

Deposit-level GKZ/KAZRC crosswalk

Current CP/QMR capacity and lead times

Scoped restatement and retrieval evidence

Cited source register

Cited source register

Scope an assessment around your evidence

Let's talk

Privacy Policy

KAZRC uptake is documented.Public deposit coverage remains unresolved.

Reported progress and unresolved coverage

Scope of inspection

Archive custody and reporting responsibility

Ministry / NGS / IAC

Rights holder / CP / RPO reader

The evidence gap after scanning

Scanned

Structured

Machine-readable

KAZRC restatement

Corpus, funding and procurement evidence

Approximate composition of the >4.8m-unit corpus

Machine-readable processing

Funding evidence

Procurement evidence

KAZRC acceptance within a hybrid register

GKZ or KAZRC route

KAZRC route

Applicant files

Professional evidence

Authority reviews

Account changes

Reporting snapshots leave deposit coverage unresolved

KAZRC institutional and reporting milestones