Authorities of the Zhetysu region of Kazakhstan have prohibited greenstone mining in the «oval stones» area of the Kyzyltas mountains to preserve the ancient petroglyphs. The enterprise developing the pit near the mountain dubbed «Tortoise» by the locals has been given another site.
Governor of the Zhetysu region Beibit Isabaev has commented on the situation around the unique site, explaining that deposit development had been ceased on legal grounds.
«There is a relevant court decision, meaning that we have mutually crossed all the T’s and dotted all the I’s in this issue. Now we’re working on...