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Satellite mines

Headframe of the Kemer mine
Kemer mine headframe

Besides the main mine at Sary-Bulak, the Combine works two smaller underground mines in Sary-Bulak District. Their ore is trucked to the Chatkal Antimony Processing Mill for concentration.

Kemer Antimony Mine

Item Details
Location Talas Alatau foothills, facing the Chatkal range, about 12 km west of the Sary-Bulak mine
Opened 1970s, under the 1971 Antimony Expansion Directive
Deposit Quartz-stibnite veins, lower in grade than Sary-Bulak
Depth of workings about 450 m
History Idle 1992 to 1997; reopened in 1997

Kyzyl-Jar Antimony Shafts

Item Details
Location Southern Sary-Bulak District
Opened 1960s, as an outlier of the Sary-Bulak mine
Workings Two shafts on narrow stibnite veins
Operation Worked according to antimony prices; closed 2007 to 2011, reopened in 2011

The name Kyzyl-Jar means "red cliff".

Soviet-era workings and prospects in the Chatkal highlands have not been worked by the Combine since 2007.