Automated Mineralogy sparks interest of Petrolab visitors

Automated Mineralogy sparks interest of Petrolab visitors

Petrolab were delighted to welcome a delegation of mining industry visitors from Russia and Kazakhstan yesterday. Petrolab Director, James Strongman gave a presentation on the value of mineralogy in both exploration and operational settings and how Petrolab is utilising recent advances in automated mineralogy and correlative workflows to join with traditional optical microscopy and other complementary micro-investigative techniques such as...
Automated Mineralogy Services open for business!

Automated Mineralogy Services open for business!

Its been a busy and varied couple of weeks for Petrolab staff running our first commercial automated mineralogy samples on our ZEISS SEM and Mineralogic Mining system. The system has flexible and highly configurable X-ray scanning modes that include line scan, feature scan, spot centroid and mapping. We have been using its capabilities to conduct varied analyses on copper tailings (using a bright phase search), a tungsten rougher table feed, a polymetallic concentrate and also several concrete samples that we have mapped for evidence of thaumasite sulphate attack (red in the...