The Dirección General de Minas e Hidrocarburos or DGMH is a branch of the Secretaria de Recursos Natural y Ambiente or SERNA within the Honduran Government. DGMH responsibilities include collection and compilation of geological information, mining and exploration permits and concessions, and hydrocarbon exploration concessions.
 

Note: Honduras Geology spoke with DGMH Director Ricardo Perdomo immediately following the inauguration of President Carlos Flores. Sr. Perdomo was unsure of his status in the new administration.

DGMH Director Ricardo Perdomo offers the services of DGMH to researchers, universities, and institutions interested in geoscience research, exploration, and activities in Honduras.

These services include:

1) office space while in Honduras,

2) access to DGMH records, files and collections,

3) petrographic lab facilities (rock saw, thin sectioning, microscope),

4) vehicles for field work.

To inquire about obtaining a memorandum of understanding for DGMH support while working in Honduras, contact Victor Guadron at DGMH. Additionally, contact Rob Rogers at Honduras Geology for suggestions and guidance concerning geoscience investigations in Honduras and with DGMH.

DGMH Activities

Economic Geology - JAPEX Geoscience Institute, Inc. (JGI) working through the Japanese Technical Mission to Honduras is indexing and cataloging the entire DGMH holdings related to hydrocarbon potential for Honduras. The JGI goal is to synthesize geological, drill well and geophysical data for a basin analysis to identify potential opportunity for hydrocarbon exploration. The analysis will be packaged and sold to companies interested in petroleum exploration, similar to the packages available in Nicaragua. Visit the JAPEX homepage, it's in Japanese, of course.

Contacts for this project are:

DGMH 

JGI

JGI

Pedro Mejia

Fumio Okitsu (okitu@hotmail.com)

Dr. Kazuo Nakayama (naka-kaz@jgi.co.jp)

Project Coordinator

Project Advisor

Basin Analysis & Evaluation, R&D Dept.

Project Manager

Dirección General de Minas e Hidrocarburos

Apartado Postal 309 

Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. 

Honduras C.A.

JAPEX Geoscience Institute, Inc.

NYK Tennoz Building

2-2-20, Higashi Shinagawa

Shinagawa-ku

Tokyo, 140, JAPAN

JAPEX Geoscience Institute, Inc.

NYK Tennoz Building

2-2-20, Higashi Shinagawa

Shinagawa-ku

Tokyo, 140, JAPAN

(504) 32-7848 fax/phone. 

Phone: 81-3-5461-7421

Fax : 81-3-5461-7409

Phone: 81-3-5461-7421

Fax : 81-3-5461-7409

In association with the Japanese Technical Mission, the Dirección General de Minas e Hidrocarburos has finished the second stage of drilling (1,500 meters) this past November of a small lead-zinc play in San Antonio de Oriente. The first stage drill 4,000 meters. Samples are currently being analyzed and a final report is expected in the next few months. The DGMH contact for this project is Pedro Mejia: (504) 32-7848 fax/phone.

Environmental Geology - The Japanese Technical Mission in Honduras in association with the Dirección General de Minas e Hidrocarburos is beginning a national program aimed at inventorying and dealing with active and inactive mine contamination. The program "Preservación de Ambiental y Control de Contaminación en Industria Mineral" will begin when Miriam Bueso of DGMH returns from Japan in March. Miriam Bueso can be reached at (504) 32-7848 fax/phone when she returns.

Please note that Honduras has recently switched to seven (7) digit phone numbers. A conversion table can be found at http://www.7digitos.hn/

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Honduras Geology is proud to be able to present this unofficial website for the Dirección General de Minas e Hidrocarburos of Honduras.

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