The Kazakh government released news that the country's government has approved the signing of an investment agreement with the Kazakh Smelting Company to build a new copper refinery in Balkhash. The project requires private investment of 750 billion tenge; construction is scheduled to begin in 2027, and production is scheduled to begin in 2030. The smelter is designed to have an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons of cathode copper, 10 tons of gold, 300 tons of silver, and more than 1.5 million tons of sulfuric acid.

The Kazakh government released news that the country's government has approved the signing of an investment agreement with the Kazakh Smelting Company to build a new copper refinery in Balkhash. The project requires private investment of 750 billion tenge; construction is scheduled to begin in 2027, and production is scheduled to begin in 2030. The smelter is designed to have an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons of cathode copper, 10 tons of gold, 300 tons of silver, and more than 1.5 million tons of sulfuric acid.