Information and Collections Management
- The South African National Geoscience Library
- A major African geoscience map collection
- A collection of unpublished reports and prospecting borehole logs
- A publication and map shop
- The SAGEOLIT national geoscience bibliographic database
- A publishing section
- The National Core Library, containing an extensive collection of borehole cores and cuttings from South African geological strata
- Gem, mineral and rock collections in the Geoscience Museum offer educational facilities to scholars, tourists and the public
- The palaeontology collection (fossils)
Spatial Data Management
- Standard or customised GIS products and data sets
- Cartographic production of maps as part of the CGS standard map series, as well as customised products for clients
- Managing the GEODE corporate database, which stores and manages spatially referenced geoscientific data. GEODE has a modular structure consisting of a borehole database (prospecting borehole logs), a coal borehole database, SAMINDABA (localities and attributes of mineral commodities), ENGEODE (engineering-geological data), and GEODE/GIS (geological, geophysical, geotechnical, geochemical and metallogenic spatial data)