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Georgia

The mineral resources of Georgia are both varied and extensive. The State is producing at present more than 25 different kinds of minerals in commercial quantities. This great diversity of mineral resources is accounted for in a large measure by the great diversity in the geological formations.

The Borjomi mineral water and the mining of manganese have traditionally been the “trademarks” of Georgia’s mineral resources. These and many other resources were utilized in the country to “feed” the giant industrial machine of the Soviet economy. Inefficient mining of the variety of minerals are classical examples of environmental mismanagement.

A. Tvalchrelidze Caucasian Institute of Mineral Resources is leading research and coordinating center of the Caucasus for complex geological and technological studies of different mineral resources in the Caucasian region. The institute had been engendered as a department of mineralogy and petrography headed by professor A.A. Tvalchrelidze at the Tbilisi State University.

Complex methods of research have become traditional for the institute in its efforts to explore mineral resources and to study the deposit geology. During the Institute’s long activity numerous deposits of bentonites, marbles, chalcedony, arsenic, barite, mineral paints, decorative stones, slates, basalts and other minerals used in the country’s national economy have been explored and recommended for industrial exploatation.

An extensive research work of the Institute is devoted to the problem of metallogenesis of the Caucasus as well as of individual deposits, to regional and local metallogenic forecast. Some of the Institute’s departments, sectors and laboratories have envolved from units organised as early as in 1929, while others emerged in response to the latest demands of scientific research. The creation of institute, as connected with necessity of country development – the particular, discowery, study and exploitation of deposits.

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