INSTITUTUL GEOLOGIC AL ROMANIEI

Geological Institute of Romania

IGR

Institutul Geologic al României (IGR) was founded in 1906, with the mission of national geological survey. Now it works under the Ministry of Research and Innovation and is member of EuroGeoSurveys. During the late decades, IGR has participated in national and international projects dedicated to raw materials (aggregates, metallic ores, secondary resources), energetic resources (oil, shale gas, geothermal resources), geohazards (landslides, complex impact of mining waste and excavation), geoinformation (mineral resources information networks, implementation of INSPIRE Directive in Romania, free access to geoinformation), ground water chemistry (composition of mineral water, influence of mine waters on surface and undeground water sources), CO2 storage. The analytical capacity of IGR includes XRD, FTIR, XRF, RAMAN and electron microscopy.