In the Korday district of the Zhambyl region, it is planned to build a processing complex based on the Gagarinskoye deposit. The project of LLP "Shokpar-Gagarinskoye" is designed to process up to 1 million tons of ore per year. Construction is scheduled for 2026-2027, and launch is expected after commissioning works. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.

According to the project balance, from 1 million tons of ore it is planned to obtain 7.1 thousand tons of lead and 9 thousand tons of zinc concentrate, as well as 1.483 tons of Dore alloy. The total output of concentrates will be about 16.1 thousand tons per year.

At the same time, the capacity of the Shokpar-Gagarinskoye mining and metallurgical complex was previously estimated at 500 thousand tons of ore per year, that is, the new design capacity is twice as high.

As of 2019, the balance reserves of Gagarinskoye amounted to 2.26 million tons of ore and 10.1 tons of gold, Shokpar – 1.55 million tons of ore and 11 tons of gold. The average gold content was 4.48 and 7.05 g/t, respectively.

The company holds gold mining licenses until 2038. In 2025, an additional 68 wells were drilled with a total length of 10.94 km.

After the 2026 deal, the subsoil user became Turan Minerals Ltd., whose owners are declared to be Diyar Yereshev and Igor Vetiu l. The transaction amount was 4.918 billion tenge.

Initially, the company was owned by the quasi-state "Tau-Ken Samruk". In 2021, it was sold for 4.2 billion tenge. The buyer turned out to be "Sunlight Investments", whose current owners are Ualikhan Atageldiyev and Igor Vetiu l. Ualikhan Atageldiyev previously served as General Director of Altynalmas Reagents.

In 2025, the company received a loan from its shareholder Igor Vetiu l for $6.7 million and from the head Diyar Kanashev for 2.5 billion tenge. After that, in April 2026, it became the property of Turan Minerals Ltd., whose owners are Diyar Yereshev and Igor Vetiu l.

Until mid-2024, Diyar Kanashev and Igor Vetiu l were shareholders of the gold mining company "Altynalmas" – Diyar Kanashev owned 10.5%, Igor Vetiu l – 6.5%. Later, their shares were bought out.

Earlier it was reported that Kazakhstan plans to start industrial extraction of gold-bearing ore at the Aktas I and Aktas II deposits near Balkhash. The project provides for the enterprise to reach a capacity of 1.2 million tons of ore per year.