What
is Petrography?
Petrography is the microscopic study of rocks, minerals or
man-made materials. It is a powerful tool for investigating
the composition, microstructure and inter-component relationships
of a wide variety of natural and synthetic materials. Used
alone, or in combination with other investigative techniques,
it can be of tremendous value in many areas of the minerals
and construction industries, for example:
Petrological
microscopy can be used as a simple descriptive or analytical
tool, for example:
identification
and quantification of valuable and gangue minerals in ores.
