Almalyk preview.   Dr Alexander Tadjiev, Chief Geologist of the Almalyk Mining & Metallurgical Complex (standing, facing camera on the image to the left), provided a comprehensive expert preview of the setting of the giant Kal'makyr-Dalnee porphyry Cu-Au deposits and the Kochbulak and Kyzylalma epithermal Au deposits that are part of the same larger mineralised system, as well as the geology and mineralisation at the Kal'makyr deposit before the group studied the ore, hosts and alteration of the latter in the pit.
Photographs by Mike Porter.