In support of national mineral development service provides Technical Assistance, an activity that requires skilled personnel to interact with the sector of medium and small mining through different mechanisms, among which:

• Prospecting
• Assessment
• Inventories Miners
• Support and advice
• Exploration assignments
• Certifications
• Contracts
• Exploration program
  
  

What support gives the small and medium mining and how to obtain them?

Offer consulting services and professional support for the development of exploration projects and exploitation of mineral resources. Its specialized personal adviser directs and monitors-occasionally signatures or qualified consultants - requests and needs raised by the small and medium mining and mining social sector. All these services are recorded in the Federal Register of paperwork and enterprise services where service request formats are also available. Principals include:

• Geological consultancy studies, before they were called reconnaissance visits, focused on targeting prospects. Its cost is 15 times the minimum monthly wage of Distrito Federal, plus Value Added Tax (IVA). It must submit a written request addressed to the General Direction, which can be mailed or submitted in the central or regional offices and require a technical form to be provided in any of the offices of SGM. To finish there will be delivered a technical report with the results.
  
  

• Services contracts of integral exploration or specific technical services, they can be requested in central or regional offices by a chart to the General Direction. There will be a previous visit by the SGM personnel, based on which work program and the respective contributions are determined, which are subject to approval of the interested person and, where appropriate, signs the contract.
  
  

• Certification of reserves located by private, by a written request of the applicant, addressed to the General Direction, the SGM certifies based on field and laboratory studies, the existence of positive and probable reserves of metallic and nonmetallic minerals contained in a mineral deposit by a previous to determine the work to perform and cost. If these are approved by the individual, the contract is signed. At the end, the SGM extends, where appropriate, the corresponding certificate and provides the technical study conducted.
  
  
  
• Laboratory services in its laboratories and experimental centers, are provided different services of characterization and analysis of samples of minerals and metallurgical research. For example, mineral analyses are performed by different techniques: quantitative chemical (by atomic absorption, volumetric, gravimetric, fire assay, etc); diffraction studies and X-ray fluorescence; by optical microscopy (petrographic and miningraphic); tests of evaluation a concentration of metallic and nonmetallic minerals. In case of require such services, it is recommended to the applicant with the management of experimental centers, to help to guide about the most appropriate type of study and the cost of them.
  
  
  
• Support Program Exploration (PAE). Since 2008, the SGM is the agency that provides the resources to continue with the PAE, with shared risk resource; may be for metallic and nonmetallic minerals, rocks and rock aggregates scalable. Under this parameter, the SGM with addiction in the Rules of Operation for the EAP, regulations in a transparent and precise application and scope to provide support to small-scale mining by mining exploration works (direct or perforation) in order to susceptible to quantify mineral resources that will serve to revive the small mining exploration activities of the mine, which generate revenues and direct jobs.