Petrography

Petrography, at the heart of detail.

Expertise

• Petrography for the mining industry

  • Provides support services aimed at mining exploration including detailed mineralogy, textural description, characterisation of the protolith and alterations.
  • Provide services in mineral processing and metallurgy to assess the quality of ore separation.

• Petrography for civil engineering

  • Petrographic examination according to the standards (CSA A23.2-15A or ASTM C295) of rock cores and granular materials (fine and coarse agregates).
  • Petrographic examination of hardened concrete.
  • Expertise in dealing with the pyrite and pyrrhotite problem in concrete.

• Production of thin sections and polished thin sections

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  • Please send the completed order form to ::email::

Equipments

• Zeiss AxioImager.M2m petrographic research microscope
• Leitz Laborlux and Wild M21 multifunctional petrographic microscopes
• Leitz Ortholux microscope with 5-axis universal stage
• Leica M3Croutine stereomicroscope
• Metallurgical microscope equipped with epifluorescence, interference contrast, etc.
• Canimpex PixeLINK digital camera, coupled with specialised image processing programme µScope
• PETROG MicroStepper stage
• Image processing, texture analysis and composition analysis software
• Zeiss EVO-MA15 scanning electron microscope (SEM)
• Large array of equipments for the making and polishing of thin sections

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