Underground at the Komsomolsky Mine, Talnakh, Russia - Top left: Peter Pelly, John Parianos and Dean Rossell, discuss, note and photograph textures in the ore,   Bottom left:  Bill Williams and Peter Pelly exchanging notes and discussing what they saw,   Centre:   Aleksandr Glotov, Chief Geologist, Komsomolsky points out relationships on the lower contact of the massive sulphide ore, and   Right: Taka Murakami studies and takes meticulous notes on features observed in the orebody.
Photographs by Mike Porter