Automated Mineralogy System

NTNU Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

Automated Mineralogy System

Description

Zeiss Sigma 300 field emission SEM with Mineralogic software for Quantitative Mineralogical Analyses rocks and ores.

Equipped with: 

  • Bruker EDS
  • panchromatic CL
  • High-speed EBSD

Fields of use - Automated Mineralogy

Fields of use - Automated Mineralogy

Automated Mineralogy System field of use


  • Quantitative mineralogical analyses
  • Automated analyses for mineralogy and petrography
  • Mineral liberation analyses
  • Textural analyses of rocks and ores Rare phase search

Compl. labs - Electron Probe

Complementary laboratories near by:


  • IGP Mineral processing lab
  • NTNU Paleo- and Rock Magnetic laboratory
  • IGP Chemical- mineralogical lab: XRF; XRD;
  • ICP-MS Automated mineralogy system
  • Advanced optical microscopy lab: Fluid inclusion system; Heating stage;