Mineral Resources of Central Asia (Kazakhstan) provided to KASE extract from shareholders registers system as of January 1, 2012

/KASE, January 24, 12/ - JSC "Mineral Resources of Central Asia" (Almaty, hereinafter - the company), securities of which are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided to KASE an extract from its shareholders registers system as of January 1, 2012. JSC "Fondovy tsentr" (Almaty) is the company's registrar. According to the mentioned extract: - the total number of authorized common shares KZ1C43150016, KZ000A1СТМ75 is equal to 3,000,000,000 pieces, preferred shares KZ1P43150112, KZ1P00000467 - 1,000,000,000 pieces; - all authorized shares of the company are outstanding; - Central Securities Depository (Almaty) nominally holds 3,999,530,055 common shares of the company (99.99 % from the total number of outstanding company shares); - persons, each holding company shares in the number of five and more percent, from total number of offered shares of the company, are: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common shares, Preferred shares, ---------------------- ---------------------- Total stake stake in stake in in total total total number number of number of of offered offered offered shares of shares shares the of this of this company, Names units denom., % units denom., % % ------------------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ----------- Aisara & MK, LLP 884,056,855 29.47 7,183,046 0.72 22.28 Alfa Business, LLP 558,093,657 18.60 1,053,309 0.11 13.98 T. Abdullin 462,500,000 15.42 - - 11.56 APF Ular-Umit, JSC 299,999,998 10.00 51,898,734 5.19 8.80 A, Seitsadanov 142,381,548 4.75 119,311,188 11.93 6.54 Capital Hotels, JSC 131,527,912 4.38 76,367,122 7.64 5.20 OAPF Otan, JSC - - 269,230,769 26.92 6.73 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Calculated by KASE based on the extract. [2012-01-24]