The Las Bambas Tour group in the field. After the Chalcobamba visit, the group were taken to the Jatun Charqui exploration target several kilometres to the west where artisanal workings are developed on garnet skarn and porphyry mineralisation and potential exists for the discovery of further economic resources. From left: Henrry Motta (Rio Tinto Exploration, Peru); Wendell Terrones (Rio Tinto Exploration, Peru); Alex Santos (MMG, Las Bambas, Peru); Mike Porter (Porter GeoConsultancy, Australia); Suziany Rocha de Souza (Rio Tinto Exploration, USA); Atsuhiro Kuroda (Sumitomo, Japan); Song Zhang (Rio Tinto Minerals Exploration, China); and George Steele (Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration, Chile).       Images by Mike Porter.