Almazar

Almazar is a City, located in Karti. The City of Almazar is a regimented, mining‑tiered settlement in the northern highlands, known chiefly as the state‑controlled hub of cobalt extraction and refining, where stark industrial pits, refineries, and worker housing dominate the landscape amid harsh climate and tight military oversight..

• Northern highlands near the Rakshaw border at 2,000–2,400 m in a cold, dry basin where cobalt deposits are concentrated; linked to Meppo by a base tunnel and a switchback road that the army keeps open when winter snows close the pass.

• A mining city built in tiers around open pits and acid tailings ponds. Core streets are regimented, lined with concrete offices and company canteens; beyond them, informal settlements (self-built brick and sheet metal) climb the slopes. Dust hangs in the air; night lighting gives the pits a harsh, lunar glow.

• Extraction, concentration, and initial refining of cobalt; ancillary fabrication of battery precursors under state monopoly. Company scrip once common; now replaced by a state wallet app that can be switched off for “disciplinary reasons.”

• The Crown Pit: the largest terraced mine, with a viewing platform used for leadership visits and televised “progress” speeches.
• Blue Line Refinery: a secured complex of autoclaves and solvent-extraction trains; labor is a mix of conscripts, contract workers, and supervised locals.
• Workers’ Ridge: panel-block housing with communal boiler plants; murals exhort safety and production quotas.

• Heavy electrified ore rail to Zorinsk and Meppo, a cog-rail spur to the upper works, and battered minibuses running the informal settlements.
• Medical evacuation helipads sit on two terraces.