The management has 85 existing contracts for the right of subsurface use for common minerals.
For reference: among them, Aksusky district - 4, Alakolsky district – 15, Eskeldinsky district - 19, Karatal district - 6, Kerbulaksky – 6, Koksusky – 6, Panfilovsky district - 15, Sarkandsky district - 8, Taldykorgan - 6.
The Management terminated 82 contracts (2015 – 5, 2016 – 6, 2017 -5, 2018 – 26, 2019-5, 2020 – 11, 2021 – 13, 2022 - 11) for the right of subsurface use.
With the introduction (29.06.2018) of the Code, the contract regime switched to a license regime, with 26 valid licenses for the extraction of common minerals.
For reference: among them, Aksu district–n - 8, Alakol district-n – 5, Eskeldinsky district–n - 3, Koksu district - 2, Sarkand district -n – 5, Kerbulak district-n - 2, Taldykorgan -1.
The Management terminated 52 licenses (2020 – 3, 2021 – 24, 2022 - 25) for the right of subsurface use.
On April 7, 2020, the rule was issued by the order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 188. According to this rule, the MIO issues a permit for the exploration or production of OPI (for the construction (reconstruction) and repair of public highways, railways owned by the state, as well as for the reconstruction and repair of hydraulic structures and hydraulic structures).
The Department has issued 52 permits (2020-23, 2021- 18, 2022-11), of these, 23 are for exploration, 29 for production. Of these, 11 are active.
For reference: among them, Aksu district –n - 7, Alakol district-n – 29, Eskeldinsky district-n – 3, Sarkandsky district –n - 13.
With the introduction of the Code, a new type of activity in subsurface use appeared, namely prospecting. Under a prospecting license, its holder has the exclusive right to use a subsoil plot for conducting operations for prospecting extraction of precious metals and precious stones at placer deposits and deposits of a technogenic nature (dumps and deposited waste from mining and metallurgy) carried out manually or using mechanization and other low-power equipment, including stripping, work for washing sand and soil, as well as other related work.
The Department has issued 5 licenses for prospecting.
For reference: of these, Aksu – 1, Alakol - 4.