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Helicopter on the glacier by the Cap prospect, Palmer property.

Sprott Global economic geologist Andy Jackson on site.

An anticline is clearly exposed in the South Pit wall. Mining is carried out by contractor BCM International Ltd.

One of the conveyor belts to carry ore from the mining area to the shaft, being restored after many years under water.

The tracked core rig drilling a twin to the RC discovery hole, LM-06 on Mesa de Plata. The twin hole is being drilled to confirm that RC drilling provides sufficiently accurate grades for resource calculation.

Rick Rule underground at Kipushi.

A good example of core grading from fresh dark gray unmineralized Secret Canyon into mineralized and oxidized material.

Typical Colombian rural public transport.

A tail of yellow gold dust sparkles in a pan.

A small fleet of equipment, moving fast.

The Katanga mineralization was introduced before and during the compressional folding of the sedimentary basin. It generally consists of primary chalcocite, chalcopyrite (copper sulfides) and cobaltite (cobalt sulfide), but in the oxide zone (this photo), most of the copper sulfides have been altered to green malachite and blue-green chrysocolla, and the cobaltite to silver-black heterogenite (a cobalt oxide).

The Nkran pit, looking south. The richest shear zones (dark gray) are visible in the pit walls at the far end.

A larger RC/core combination rig, here drilling an RC pre-collar for a diamond tail. The bagged chip samples are in the foreground.

Examining a mineralized face underground. Note the broken nature of the ore.

Ivanhoe's interpretation of the stratigraphy on the Platreef property.

Typical mineralized claron sandstone, from just above the unconformity. Grade 2.55 g/t Au.