Economy

The largest deposits of UVS are Severnaya Truva, Zhanazhol, Alibekmola; according to TPI-Priorskoye, 50 years of October (copper ores), Almaz-Zhemchuzhina, 40 years of KazSSR, 20 years of KAZ SSR (chromite ores) and Zhilyanskoye (potassium salts).

311 underground water deposits have been explored, of which 3 are for balneotherapy.

Aktobe region has significant opportunities for the development of oil and gas, mining and processing industries and related to the use of mineral raw materials industries. The region has a variety of minerals, the most important of which are hydrocarbons, ferrous metals-chromites, iron, non-ferrous and precious metals-copper, zinc, gold, silver, Nickel, cobalt, aluminum, titanium. There is a large Deposit of energy brown coal, deposits of mining chemical and ceramic raw materials. Deposits of nonmetallic and building materials are widespread. To provide cities, towns and industrial enterprises identified and explored numerous deposits of drinking and technical groundwater.

As of 2019, in the depths of the Aktobe region are concentrated:

• 8.23% oil, 
• 4.69% dissolved gas, 
• 6.86% free gas, 
• 3.50% condensate, 
• 100% chromites, 
• 5.2% iron, 
• 5.8% copper, 
• 7.8% zinc, 
• 25.5% Nickel, 
• 15.7% cobalt, 
• 2.0% aluminum, 
• 69.7% titanium, 
• 29.9% zirconium, 
• 4.0% gold, 
• 3.4% silver, 
• 4.0% brown coal, 
• 34.5% phosphorites, 
• 96.1% potassium salts, 
• 88.8% vermiculite, 
• 100% anthophyllite-asbestos, 
• 28.8% kaolin from the Republican balance reserves.

Almost inexhaustible reserves of building materials: limestone, building stone, brick and cement raw materials, construction and quartz Sands, sand and gravel mixture, clays, gypsum, chalk, etc.; volumes of exploration and production are determined by the demand of consumers.

Competitive advantages of the region:

• The unique geographical location of the region, located at the intersection of air, rail and highway routes, high transit potential;
• A rich mineral resource base;
• Favorable investment climate and high level of investment activity;
• Availability of water resources for the development of irrigated agriculture;
• High potential for the development and use of renewable energy sources.

Industrial production indices by main types of economic activity

January 2024 as a percentage of January 2023.

Resource and raw material base

Commodities	The name of the field
Iron	Kherson, Velikhov Northern, Goryun, Velikhov Southern, Uzynsor, Ushkol, Shagarshin, Zhana-Daursky I, Benkalinsky, Benkalinsky Southern, Araltogaysky, Kiyaktinsky, Irgizsky, Kokbulak, Zhangiz
Gold	Benkalinskoye, Borly, Koskol – I, Balsalmic West, Akpan, Koskol, Sanas, South Ballymackey Anniversary Tactical, Sarlybay, Dzhilandy, Zhilandy
Aluminum	Sarcasme, South Kaindinski, Taldyk-Advisce
Asbestos	July, Kainda, Bugetysay, Geophysical-I, Geophysical-III-IV, Kitarsay
Graphite	Octastyle
Kyanite sillimanite	Ľs Jol, Bala-Taldyk North, Brigade, Kitari
Quartz and quartzites	Anniversary
Limestone	Anastasevskoe, Terenzi, Aulie, Zhanazhol, Novorossiysk, Achatinidae, Imola etc.
Gypsum	Tostao, the Cintas, Mare-Tobe, kumsi, Akshinskoe, Akzhar fair professional technical, Estimate, etc.
Vermiculite	Sholak-Kayraktinsky, Altintas, Karatuzskoe,
Gabbro	Kainadinski, Sukhinovskiy
Talc	Kumsai, Taskuduk

Industry is the main sector of the region's economy. 60.8% of industrial production of the region is accounted for by the mining industry, the share of manufacturing industry was 32.2%, electricity-6.3% and water-0.7%. The share of the manufacturing industry in the total structure of the region's industry increased by 4.8%. The index of physical volume of output of the manufacturing industry amounted to 108.4%. Positive dynamics was mainly due to increase in volumes of output of a new Ferroalloy plant (plant number 4) JSC "TNK "Kazchrome", a rail and beam plant which is third in the world (after the USA and Japan), began to produce 120 meter rails.
Metallurgy in the region is represented by the Aktobe Ferroalloy plant of JSC " TNK "Kazchrom", the volume of which is more than 20% of the Kazakh Ferroalloy.
There are 17 enterprises operating in the chemical industry. The largest of them are JSC "Aktobe plant of chromium compounds" (chromium anhydride, chromium oxide, sodium bichromate, chromium sulfate), LLP "Temir service" (phosphate flour), LLP "Kaztskubnitrohim" (production of explosives).

Structure of industrial production of Aktobe region by types of economic activity in January-September 2021

Type of activity	Volume of production of industrial products (goods, services), thousand tenge	The share of activities in the regional volume of industrial production, in %
Mining and quarrying Crude oil and natural gas production Mining of metal ores Technical services in the mining industry	886 291 165 501 509 033 222 538 627 144 328 262
Manufacturing industry Food production Beverage industry	449 216 108 42 648 640 3 028 369
Light industry	1 579 270
Production of coke and petroleum products	40 739 559
Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products	36 478 946
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products	4 191 436
Production of other non metallic mineral products	22 752 291
Metallurgical industry	261 514 531
Manufacture of finished metal products, except machinery and equipment	4 296 226
Engineering	29 ;988 717
Furniture production	277 931
Manufacture of other finished products	3 547
Power supply, gas supply, steam and air conditioning	63 383 650
Water supply; Sewerage system, control over waste collection and distribution	10 730 486
Industry-total	1 621 409	100,0

Source: stat.gov.kz

Gross output of products (services) of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in the whole region in January-September 2019 amounted to 199.9 billion tenge, which is higher than the corresponding period of the previous year by 1.2%.
The growth of agricultural, forestry and fisheries production in January-September 2019 is due to an increase in the slaughter of livestock and poultry in live weight by 7.4%, the yield of raw cow's milk-by 3.2%, chicken eggs-by 0.8%.

Gross output of products (services) of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in Aktobe region in January-September 2021 (million tenge)

Agriculture, forestry and fisheries	from it:
	agriculture	from it:
		plant growing	farming
199 903,4	199 414,0	74 297,1 (37,25%)	124 772,1 (62,74%)