The project has a capital cost in the region of $1.8 billion, and is being funded from an existing $2.7 billion financing facility provided by the China Development Bank and Samruk-Kazyna.
 

Bozshakol, 220 km. north east of the capital Astana will have a production life of over 40 years, with average output of 75 kt. of copper in concentrate per annum, although the production will average 100 kt. for the first 14 years.

Bozshakol is the largest single mine development in Kazakhstan by both volume and value and emplayment.

A new railway to the site will be built from the existing Bozshakol railway station to provide transport for supplies together with a new road that will connect the site to the existing Astana– Pavlodar road.

Scope of BIR is plannning and civil, structural, infrastructural, mechanical and electrical detail design of nonprocess buildings, maintainance workshops, warehouses, permanent camp and fuel facility and shop drawings of process buildings.