Vale SA, the world’s largest iron- ore producer, will explore for copper and gold in Kazakhstan as the country seeks outside investors, a ministry official said.

It is reported that as of September 2nd 2010, Russia utilized 50.76% of its steel quota of 3,184,445 tonnes allocated to it by the European Union for the current year while Kazakhstan utilized zero percent of its allocated EU quota of 205,000 tonnes.

Russia launched, three more GLONASS navigation satellites yesterday. The launch was successfully done from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket at 4:53 Moscow time (0:53 GMT), according to Interfax reports, citing a Russian Space Forces spokesman. Placed into orbit, these new satellites will begin operations in October according to Nikolai Testoyedov, the head of the company that develops the GLONASS equipment.

A trainload of Chinese troops departed August 31 for Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) exercises in Kazakhstan, Xinhua reported. They are scheduled to arrive September 7.

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