Laboratory Services
The IOS laboratory offers many services that integrate into mineral exploration:
- Rock samples preparation
- Geochemical samples preparation
- Cutting and storage of drill core
- Production of thin sections, polished thin sections and minerals mount
- Manufacturing of reference materials
IOS meets the requirements of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for importing and handling foreign samples (licence and certification).
Equipments
- Hand-held XRF spectrometer
- Fritsch laser particle sizer
- Furnace
- Mill, jaw crusher, ring mill
- Rodmill or Bond's ball mill
- Agate bowl pulveriser
- Agate and porcelain morter
- Scale, microbalance, nanobalance
- Rotap and Reistch sieve
- Hoods, wet chemistry laboratory
- Oven and dryer
- Polishing table
- Collection of reference materials