MAIN RESULTS OF WORK ON HARD MINERAL RESOURCES AND STATE GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AT SNIIGGIMS FOR 2007–2016

A. I. Chernykh 1, G. A. Babin 2, S. G. Mishenin 3, O. V. Murzin 3, A. Yu. Shirobokov 3, E. V. Vetrov 3

1 Central Research Geological Exploration Institute of Non-Ferrous and Noble Metals (TsNIGRI), Moscow, Russia; 2 A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), St. Petersburg, Russia; 3 Siberian Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources (SNIIGGiMS), Novosibirsk, Russia

The authors discuss the main results of work of the Department of Hard Mineral Resources of SNIIGGiMS for 2007–2016. The key focus areas of the department in the period was prediction of and prospecting for gold and polymetallic mineralisation, diamonds, and regional geological survey at a scale of 1 to 200,000 and 1 to 1,000,000. An important step was increasing the scope of field work, widening their coverage, and introducing new types of research. An important result of the department’s work was building the team able to solve the most complicated tasks in the field of geological mapping, prediction of and prospecting for hard mineral resources.

Keywords: hard mineral resources, prospecting, gold mineralisation, non-ferrous metals, diamonds, state geological mapping.

DOI 10.20403/2078-0575-2017-6s-93-101