Institut de recherche en exploration minerale
- Corporate body
- founded 1973
The Institut de Recherche en Exploration Minérale/Mineral Exploration Research Institute was incorporated in 1973. Its purpose is to encourage through research programmes the growth and study of the mineral industry in Canada. Among the founders of the Institute were W. F. Hitschfeld, then Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at McGill, and Wallace H. MacLean of McGill's Department of Geology.