Mineralogical

analysis and reporting on metalliferous ores, gold and PGM, industrial minerals, slags and contaminants.

Materials

analysis and reporting on rocks, aggregates, building stone, slate, concrete, render and mortar.

Mundic Property Search

Since 1991, Petrolab has completed thousands of concrete screening tests on properties throughout Cornwall. Search our database and and see if your property is one of those tested.

Sample Preparation

Preparation of petrographic thin sections from samples and specimens of rock, aggregate, concrete and other similar materials.

Why Petrolab?

Mineralogical analysis

Identification and quantification of valuable and gangue minerals in ores
Automated Mineralogy (Bulk Modal Analysis, Deportment, Detailed Liberation, GSD, Associations, Theoretical Mineral Liberation, Particle Images)
Ore characterisation
Predicting the behaviour of minerals during ore processing
Mineralogical description and quantitative analysis of mill products

Petrographic analysis

Examination of concrete, mortar and render to identify degradation factors.
Examination of rock, aggregate, building stone and slate.
Mundic Screening Tests for building structures suspected of containing ‘mundic’ concrete.

Sample preparation

Petrolab offers a materials preparation service producing petrographic thin sections from samples and specimens of

rock
aggregate
fossil / coral
concrete and other similar materials

We operate the first Pelcon Automatic Thin Section Machine in the UK, which produces high quality thin sections.

Our Clients

Petrolab has provided a wide range of services to industry leading clients including:

Latest News

Petrolab are delighted to welcome Libby Rose. Libby has a First-Class Honours degree in Geology and was awarded a MSc with Distinction in Mining Geology at Camborne School of Mines in 2017. She went on to complete an internship at CSIRO on their CMR Discovery Internship Program in Perth, WA. Here she studied the hyperspectral infrared spectral data from multiple komatiite drill holes hosting nickel, and then carried out and compared Tornado x-ray fluorescence element mapping, scanning electron microscopy, and more detailed infrared microscopy.... read more

Mineralogic 101 – Complex Outputs

by Chris Brough | Apr 26, 2018

This is the last in the series of Mineralogic 101 posts looking at the complex data outputs that are available for the thorough visualisation of liberation, association and grain-size information.

Comminution 2018

by Chris Brough | Apr 13, 2018

Petrolab and iMin Solution Director James Strongman will be presenting at Grinding Solutions pre-conference Seminar at the Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town on April 15th, talking about “Mineralogy, Metallurgy and the Mine Site”