COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE
Associations in Pietermaritzburg

Working together as teams across functions to solve problems, develop novel ideas that create new value for our stakeholders and improve the organizational performance of CGS. Striving for a diverse workplace by incorporating the contributions of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, promoting an inclusive culture and demonstrating respect for the individual. Consistently setting challenging yet realistic targets, taking ownership of personal actions and work commitments, and holding ourselves personally accountable for achieving results. Ensuring professional and personal development of our staff in a learning organization. Small- to medium-sized outcropping ore bodies are identified. Engineering-geological site investigations aimed at dams and dam safety, tunnels, pump stations and reservoirs. Research, focusing on understanding the dolomitic environment and its stability. Groundwater resource assessments (quantification, flow determination and water quality studies) Groundwater sustainability studies for both resources and water supply schemes. impact of mining, as well as of waste and sanitation facilities) Specialist environmental drilling services (direct push methods, as well as gas and water sampling) Resource surveys of heavy minerals, marine placer diamonds, potash and phosphate. Regional geological mapping at various scales for national and international clients. Structural, metamorphic and igneous investigations in complex metamorphic terranes. Regolith characterisation and mapping for infrastructure development and mineral exploration. Specialist geoscientific contributions for environmental impact assessment processes. The maintenance of the SACS database, which is used to record and administer the stratigraphic terminology for South African stratigraphy. The CGS operates under three types of mandate, some of which are fixed and others that are variable. Basic geoscience research into the nature and origin of rocks, ores, minerals, formations, the history and evolution of life and the formation of the earth with a view to understanding the geological processes of both the past and present and to compile and publish such research findings nationally and internationally to contribute to the understanding of the earth, its evolution and its resources. The collection and curation of all geoscience data and knowledge on South Africa in the National Geoscience Repository. This repository houses a large and growing collection of geoscience information on all the countries of the African continent. This information also includes data that were received from mining companies, universities and research institutions worldwide. The rendering of geoscience knowledge services and advice to the State to enable informed and scientifically based decisions on the use of the earth’s surface and the earth’s resources, within the territory of South Africa. The management of a number of national geoscience facilities on behalf of the country. As part of its seismological monitoring function, the CGS contributes to the verification of global compliance to the ban on underground, underwater and upper atmospheric nuclear explosions in terms of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), by making data available from stations located on South African territory. The rendering of commercial geoscience services and products to national and international clients. The third and variable mandate that the CGS operates under is that expressed in the speeches and addresses made by, for example, the President of South Africa in his State of the Nation address and the various budget-vote speeches made by the Ministers of Minerals and Energy, and of Science and Technology.