Abstract
In Kazakhstan, the main porphyry copper deposits are located in the Northern Balkhash region. The Konyrat, Aktogay, Aidarly, and Borly copper-porphyry deposits have been explored and exploited in this area. The main reserves of the country's copper raw materials are associated with these deposits. The Eastern Balkhash region is part of the North Balkhash ore zone. Previous studies on the Eastern Balkhash region focused on the Aktogay region and did not pay due attention to the southern part of the East Balkhash region, despite the fact that this region borders the Aktogay ore field and has prerequisites for the discovery of new ore sites. The geological structure of the area includes devonian and carboniferous terrigenous-effusive formations which are broken through by granitoid intrusions. Hydrothermal changes are widespread in the host rock and intrusive massifs. We have conducted cosmogeological studies and compiled a cosmogeological scheme of the territory with the allocation of ore-controlling annular and linear structures, the spread of areal bodies of intrusive rocks and metasomatic changes. According to the data of geological and cosmogeological studies, promising areas have been identified, within which geological and geophysical prospecting works have been carried out. According to the data of geophysical work, local anomalies have been identified for drilling mapping and prospecting wells. As a result of geological, geophysical, drilling, mineralogical and petrographic studies in the buried intrusion of granitoids, a new promising sulfide copper-molybdenum mineralization was revealed.