Improving the skills of geoscientists is fundamental to improve their mineral exploration success, increase their intervention capability in environmental science and boost their credibility in geotechnics. From this standpoint, IOS team is offering a short-course about modern SEM and microanalysis techniques at the annual convention of Geological Association of Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada (GAC-MAC), to be held on October 30 and 31 at Western Ontario University, London. The workshop, on-site and on-line, is to be lectured by an array of industry specialists and academics, who will review the basics of SEM and microanalysis as well as the wide spectrums of specialized applications such as electron diffraction for crystalline structure mapping, automated mineral mapping, surface effects using Auger spectroscopy, 3-D imaging, trace element analysis using micro-XRF, correlative microscopy, etc.

Geologists often say that small scale features are reflection of large scale phenomena. So, we are inviting you to get familiar with the small scale...

Program can be downloaded at:

https://gacmac2021.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/5_GAC-MAC-London-2021-Workshop-Modern-SEM_AUG.pdf

Note: This is a non-profit activity. All revenues are to be remitted to the Geological Association of Canada.

‘'There are those who follow the rules... and those who define them''

High-resolution chemical mapping of a clay particle in humic soil, upon which oversaturated copper precipitated as chalcocite. An example of application in contaminated soil characterization as well as for exploration geochemistry.