Servicio Geológico Minero

Argentina Geological & Mining
Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino
Abbreviation SEGEMAR
Legal status Government Organisation
Purpose Geoscience
Headquarters Buenos Aires
Region served
 Argentina Argentina
Parent organization
 Secretary of Mining
Staff
 448
Website www.segemar.gov.ar

Servicio Geológico Minero is an Argentine government institution aimed at producing geological, mining and enronmental information to achieve sustained development and mitigate geological hazards.[1]

The institution has its origin at the fusion of Dirección General de Minas y Geología and Comisión de Estudios de Napas de Agua y Yacimientos Carboníferos in 1904.[2] Its first director was Enrique Hermitte who served in the charge until 1922. With Hermitte in chage the institution attracted a number European geologist to work for the institution including Richard Stappenbeck, John Keidel and Walther Penck.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Funciones y Objetivos
  2. ↑ Historia
  3. ↑ Aceñolaza, Florencio G. (2008), "La contribución de la Dirección General de Minas, Geología e Hidrología de la Nación a la formación de la primera generación de geólogos argentinos, y la actuación del Ing. Enrique M. Hermitte", Serie correlación geológica (in Spanish) (24)
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