FIELD EXPEDITIONS

The Institute conducts field expeditions in the Irkutsk, Chita, Magadan, Amur and Krasnoyarsk Regions, in Republics of Sakha, Khakassiya, Buryatia, Tyva and in Mongolia aimed at studying of:

• geology, magmatism and metallogeny of south-eastern surrounding of the Siberian Platform, central and western sectors of the Mongol-Okhotsk Fold Belt, north-east of Russia, Kamchatka and Mongolia;

• ophiolitic complexes of Baikal Area, Transbaikalia and Mongolia;

• rare-metal-granitic and granite-pegmatitic ore-magmatic systems within the western sector of the Mongol Suture Zone and adjacent areas of Mongolia;

• gold ore-magmatic systems located within the western and south-western parts of the Mongol-Okhotsk Fold Belt and north-east of Russia;

• volcanism in the Baikal Rift Zone;

• sedimentary cores obtained from lakes Baikal, Hovsgol and small of the Eastern Siberia;

The Institute pursues a constant geochemical monitoring of the environment in the Baikal Region.