Geology, Prospecting and Exploration of Minerals, Minerageny

Main areas of research:

• Development of spatial and temporal models of the geological evolution of regions and analysis of the regularities of changes in the composition and structure of sedimentary, volcanogenic-sedimentary, magmatic and ore formations 
• Study of the relationship between magmatism, metamorphism and ore mineralisation Geochemical specialisation of magmas, petrological factors in the formation of ore concentrations and criteria for assessing the ore-bearing capacity of magmatic complexes 
• Genetic mineralogy, study of mineral paragenesis and evolution of mineralogenesis in natural and anthropogenic systems 
• Experimental mineralogy 
• Crystallography and crystallochemistry of minerals, their industry-induced and synthetic analogues 
• Theory and methods of estimating quantities, states and forms of chemical elements and their isotopes in nature 
• Development of principles and methods of physicochemical modelling of geochemical systems and processes, methods of mathematical processing of geochemical data and mathematical modelling of geochemical processes 
• Geodynamic and geological conditions of ore formation and evolution of ore formation processes in the Earth’s history. Epochs of ore formation, geochronology of deposits and duration of ore-forming processes, the problem of formation of large and unique deposits 
• Relationship with magmatism, metamorphism and sedimentation