Asia
Kazakhstan
What comes out of the ground here, what is still in it, and who operates the assets.
21 materials produced
0 mines in the atlas
0 plants in the atlas
What it produces
Maps →USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · 2025 (estimated) · each row keeps the unit the source uses for that commodity · source ↗
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| Material | Series | Production | Unit | Share of world |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asbestos | Mine production | 250,000 | metric tons | 26.0% |
| Titanium | Titanium sponge metal production | 16,000 | metric tons | 4.3% |
| Chromium | Mine production | 7,000 | thousand metric tons | 13.7% |
| Sulfur | Production, all forms | 4,800 | thousand metric tons | 5.7% |
| Bauxite | Bauxite, mine production | 4,800 | thousand metric dry tons | 1.1% |
| Molybdenum | Mine production | 4,300 | metric tons | 1.7% |
| Tungsten | Mine production | 2,400 | metric tons | 2.8% |
| Phosphate Rock | Mine production | 1,900 | thousand metric tons | 0.8% |
| Alumina | Alumina, refinery production | 1,500 | thousand metric dry tons | 1.0% |
| Cadmium | Refinery production | 1,100 | metric tons | 4.8% |
| Rhenium | Mine production | 1,000 | kilograms | 1.2% |
| Antimony | Mine production | 800.0 | metric tons | 0.7% |
| Copper | Mine production | 710.0 | thousand metric tons | 3.1% |
| Barite | Mine production | 700.0 | thousand metric tons | 8.0% |
| Silver | Mine production | 630.0 | metric tons | 2.4% |
| Zinc | Mine production | 360.0 | thousand metric tons | 2.8% |
| Bismuth | Refinery production | 180.0 | metric tons | 1.1% |
| Gold | Mine production | 130.0 | metric tons | 3.9% |
| Silicon | Ferrosilicon | 120.0 | thousand metric tons | 2.4% |
| Selenium | Refinery production | 50.00 | metric tons | 1.3% |
| Magnesium Metal | Smelter production | 13.00 | thousand metric tons | 1.2% |
What it holds in reserve
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · reserves as most recently published
| Material | Series | Reserves | Unit | Share of world |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asbestos | Reserves | 20,000,000 | metric tons | 13.3% |
| Phosphate Rock | Reserves | 260,000 | thousand metric tons | 0.4% |
| Rhenium | Reserves | 190,000 | kilograms | — |
| Bauxite | Bauxite reserves | 160,000 | thousand metric dry tons | 0.6% |
| Chromium | Reserves: Cr2O3 content | 100,000 | thousand metric tons | 18.5% |
| Barite | Reserves | 85,000 | thousand metric tons | — |
| Copper | Reserves | 20,000 | thousand metric tons | 2.0% |
| Zinc | Reserves | 7,400 | thousand metric tons | 3.1% |
| Gold | Reserves | 2,300 | metric tons | 3.5% |
| Molybdenum | Reserves (thousand metric tons) | 7.00 | thousand metric tons | 0.0% |
| Silver | Reserves | Not applicable | metric tons | — |
| Tungsten | Reserves | Not applicable | metric tons | — |
| Antimony | Reserves | Not applicable | metric tons | — |
Companies headquartered here
Kazatomprom · State minerJourneys that pass through Kazakhstan
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Kazakh uranium to a fuel assembly in a reactor starts here The most tightly watched journey in this atlas: every kilogram is accounted for, at every border.A leading U.S. import source for
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · major U.S. import sources, 2021–2024