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.
establishing
mineral parageneses
establishing
degradation mechanisms in concrete
predicting
the behavior of minerals during ore processing
assessing
the potential stability of concrete aggregates
Petrolab combine traditional
petrographic and petrological methods with the latest techniques
of digital imagery and sophisticated computer-based image processing
and analysis.
