• Has an excellent track record of augmenting the mineral resources of the country all through.
• Has a core group of exploration geo-scientists experienced in the assessment of different mineral deposits in different settings.
• Has elaborate facilities of drilling, geophysical and analytical stream to back up the detailed mineral exploration work.
• Has facilities for data entry, processing, analysis and interpretation by computer techniques.

• Concerted efforts of GSI over the last five decades had resulted in augmenting the mineral resources position to several folds.
• Breakthrough discovery of high level laterite(bauxite)crusts with gibbsite over large tracts of Orissa & A.P. added 2000 m.t. to the earlier known meagre 345 m.t.
• The reserves of copper ore increased to 512 m.t. through discovery of deposits like Malanjkhand, Rakha deposit of Singhbhum Copper Belt.
• The discovery of basemetal deposits of Kayar-Ghugra, Zawar, Rajpura-Dariba etc. increased India’s reserves from 4.8 m.t. to 500 m.t.
• The Manganese reserves got enhanced to 240 m.t. through discovery of deposits at Sandhur, Bonai, Keonjhar.
• The discovery of Sukinda and Baula chromite enhanced the reserves to 182 m.t.
• The reserves of iron ore has been enhanced to 13,783 m.t.
• With a new understanding of association of gold in volcano sedimentary sequence has helped GSI in discovering several smaller deposits of gold as Chigargunta, Hirabuddini, Chinmalgund etc. in schist belt of Karnataka, thereby increasing the reserves of gold ores from 4 m.t. to 30.5 m.t.
• Search for diamond bearing kimberlite bodies through path finder minerals have led to the discovery of 21 new kimberlite bodies in A.P. and M.P.
• A significant prospect of PGE has been located in Baula-Nausahi ultramafic belt.
• Concept oriented search has led to the discovery of primary molybdenite deposit in Velampatti in Dharmapuri district, Tamilnadu.

Services available

• Expertise for exploration of different minerals.
• Exploration for different mineral from preliminary reconnaissance to detailed exploration.
• From plane table geological mapping to sub-surface exploration by drilling, supported by geophysical and geochemical methods.
• Geological modelling assisted by geophysical surveys and geochemical data.
• Apart from the above compact packages, the following individual inputs are also offered for mineral exploration or related field. (a) Geological inputs - as preparation of ground plan and geological appraisal, core logging.(b) Geophysical inputs including multi-sensor logging. (c) Geochemical inputs. (d) Drilling inputs.

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