X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) | X-ray Diffraction (XRD) | Microscopy | Nondestructive Testing (NDT) Technology

Geological Surveys and Academia: Earth Sciences and Mineral Processing Research

• Field work
• Teaching
• Lab and research activities

Exploration Greenfields and Brownfields

• Optimize exploration budgets and fast track projects with real-time data in the field
• Rapidly delineate mineralogical controls
• Optical mineralogy/petrology of host rock materials

Mining

• Grade control and lithogeochemistry—real-time geochemistry and mineralogy
• Use NDT technology, like phased array, eddy current, and remote visual inspection, to inspect fixed and heavy mobile plant equipment

Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

• Optimize exploration budgets and fast track projects with real-time data in the field
• Rapidly delineate mineralogical controls
• Optical mineralogy/petrology of host rock materials

Onsite and Commercial Laboratories

• Inexpensive, near real-time multi-element geochemistry
• Easily collect quantitative mineralogy
• Optical mineralogy/petrology of host rock materials

Plant Maintenance Fixed and Mobile Equipment

• Alloy PMI, weld testing, and oil/lubricant wear analysis
• Corrosion ID and classification
• Measure the thickness of conveyor belts and other wear surfaces
• Use remote video to visually inspect hard-toreach places
• Use microscopes to view welds at high magnification

Environmental Remediation and Mine Closure

• Soil, rock, and dust monitoring; site remediation; contamination mapping; waste and tailing classification, including acid-mine drainage (AMD)
• Mineralogical phase ID of waste and tails materials