The Kazakh mining industry is to benefit from KTZ1.3 trillion worth of investment over the next three years, the chairman of the country’s ERG Research Engineering Centre said today. The money is to be channelled into 31 projects. Speaking at the CIS Sustainable Mining Forum in Astana, he added that Kazakhstan had the 13th largest mining sector in the world and the sector contributed around 12% to the country’s GDP he added. Kapital.kz