Chinese company Dengbo Success Minerals plans to mine copper and zinc there. Some residents support the project but ask for environmental guarantees. This is stated in a report by "Astana TV".

The essence in brief

• Dengbo Success Minerals plans to resume copper and zinc mining at the Novo-Berezovskoye deposit, with industrial mining scheduled for 2030.
• Declared investments are $35.6 million, ore reserves are estimated at approximately 4.7 million t, and up to 500 jobs are planned at the mine.
• The company promised up to 1.5 billion tenge for social projects in the village in 2027-2035.
• In the autumn, the company pumped out mine water without an environmental permit; the pumps were removed, and the prosecutor's office took the case under control.

What was discussed with residents

Deputies of the Kurultai, among them Yerlan Sairov from the "Adilet" faction, met with residents of Verkhneberezovsky. According to the residents, the closed mine is dragging the village down, and reopening it could keep people there. Anatoly Palagin, a village resident, said that the ore in the deposit remains unworked, and most fellow villagers support the launch. Residents ask for public oversight of compliance with environmental requirements. Sairov stated that investment is needed and is the main condition for economic development.

What the company plans

Dengbo Success Minerals Ltd is a private Chinese company. It plans to mine copper, zinc, lead and gold at the Novo-Berezovskoye deposit. Ore reserves are estimated at approximately 4.7 million t. Preparatory work and reaching design capacity will take three years, industrial mining will begin in 2030, and the mine's operating life will be 13 years. Up to 500 jobs are planned at the mine, and local residents and graduates of the Glubokovsky Technical College should be the first to count on them.

The akimat signed a memorandum on resuming mining in October 2025. On September 22, 2026, the company signed a social memorandum with the akimat: up to 1.5 billion tenge in 2027-2035 for roads, social facilities, housing and support for vulnerable residents. According to Ulysmedia, so far 10 million tenge has been transferred to the Glubokovsky district support fund.

What about the environment

In the autumn, the investors installed pumps and pumped out mine water without an environmental permit for discharge, which had not been issued to them. After the intervention of the akim of Glubokovsky district, the pumps were removed, and the prosecutor's office took the case under control. Ulysmedia writes that environmentalists found contamination of the soil cover near the Berezovka and Krasnoyarka rivers and exceedances of maximum permissible concentrations of lead and zinc in the water. In four administrative cases, the fines amount to approximately 4 million tenge. The company's deputy director explained that the pumps ran for three hours and that this was a one-time contamination check; no work is currently being carried out.

According to a company representative, it does not yet have permits for the work; a decision from the regional ecology department is expected within 15 days.

Which figures diverge

The report mentions a prospect of up to 3 thousand jobs, whereas the memorandum and public hearings referred to no more than 500.

Author's conclusion

Until 2030, the project's main test will not be investment but environmental permits: the company does not yet have permits, and the water in the local river, according to 2025 data, already belongs to class six, that is, highly polluted. Many residents are ready to accept the launch of the mine if it proceeds according to the law, and it is precisely on the law that the project currently has the fewest answers.