The 9th MINEX Central Asia Forum will be held on 17-19 April 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Forum theme “Central Asia – moving up with the buoyant markets”
The current state of the Central Asian mining sector can be described as follows:
- Upbeat markets
- Increasing state investment in the mining sector
- Changes in the Kazakhstan mining sector regulations – a new code “On Subsoil and Subsoil Use”, the Tax Code, the Environmental Code
- Stricter requirements for transparency and responsibility
- Increased investors’ interest in IPOs of mining companies
- Creation of the international investment centre in Astana
- Emergence of new financing instruments
- Active focus on process optimisation and production modernisation, introduction of “Industry 4.0” technologies
