Dmitry Evgenievich Saveliev, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Chief Researcher, Institute of Geology — Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IG UFRC RAS), Ufa (Russian Federation).He has more than 30 years of experience. His research interests include petrology, mineralogy, and ore potential of ultramafic rocks, petrology of the Earth's upper mantle, gold potential of the western slope of the Southern Urals.