Main directions of investigations and scientific divisions of the Institute

Geology of Ore Deposits

Research supervisors: Academician N.P. Laverov and Corresponding Member of RAS Yu.G. Safonov

• Academician A.G. Betekhtin Laboratory of Ore Deposits
• Section of Metallogeny
• Section of Geology of Ore Deposits
• Section of Minerography
• Group of Deep Structure and Geodynamics of Ore Regions
• Group of Non-metallic Mineral Commodities.

Petrology

Research supervisors: Academicians O.A. Bogatikov, V.I. Kovalenko and A.A. Marakushev

• Academician A.N. Zavaritsky Laboratory of Petrography
• Laboratory of Rare-Metal Magmatism
• Group of Paleomagnetic Investigations
• Academician D.S. Korzhinskii laboratory of Metamorphism and Metasomatism
• Ore-Petrographic section – Museum

Mineralogy, Crystal-chemistry (crystalline structure) of Minerals

Research supervisors: Academicians V.S.Urusov

• Academician F.V. Tchukhrov Laboratory of Mineralogy
• Group of Physics of Minerals
• Group of “Minerals” manual
• Group of Thermal Investigations
• Academician N.V. Belov Laboratory of Mineral Crystal-Chemistry
• Group of Electron Microscopy
• Group of Electronography
• Group of X-Ray Analysis

Physical Geochemistry and Geochemistry of Ore Elements

Research Supervisor – Academician I.D. Ryabchikov

• Academician  A.E. Fersmann Laboratory of Geochemistry
• Section of Physical Geochemistry
• Section of Geochemistry of Ore-Forming Processes

Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology

Research Supervisor – Corresponding Member of RAS I.V. Chernyshov

• Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology

Radiogeology and Radioecology

Research Supervisors: Academician N.P. Laverov and Corresponding Member RAS V.I. Velichkin

• Academician D.I. Shcherbakov Laboratory of Radiogeology and Radioecology
• Section of Uranium Geology
• Section of Geologic Support for Radioactive Waste Disposal
• Section of Hydrogeochemical Problems of Radioecology
• Section of Simulation
• Section of Landscape Geochemistry
• Group of Nuclear-Physical Analysis Methods

Geoinformatics

Research Supervisors: Academician N.P. Laverov and Prof. A.V. Vesselovsky

• Laboratory of Geoinformatics

Analysis of Composition and Properties of Mineral Substances

Research Supervisor – Corresponding Member of RAS I.V. Chernyshov

• Laboratory of Mineral Substance Analysis
• Group of Chemical Methods of Analysis
• Group of Chemical-Spectral Methods of Analysis
• Group of X-ray spectral analyses methods
• Group of Mineral Separation
  
  

North-Caucasus Scientific Division of IGEM RAS (city of Vladikavkaz), head – A.B. Dzaynukov, Ph.D.