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Mineralogic Systems
Your Dedicated Solutions for Automated Mineralogy
Dedicated automated mineralogy systems from ZEISS are designed to run on any ZEISS SEM with multiple integrated EDX detectors.
Revolutionize your plant performance with field- and laboratory-based systems. Industry specific modules for the Oil and Gas and Mining industries allow you to quickly and simply interrogate your data, produce reports and gain unique insights:
MinSCAN
Your Ruggedized Mine-site Mineralogical Analyzer
Highlights
View and Manage Your Results
- Sort particles and grains, viewing individual particles, grains, pores or fields of view
- Create large mineral maps and BSD grayscale montages
- Enjoy the convenience of modifying mineral classifications
Remote Data Interpretation
- Operate from anywhere in the world
- Quickly export data for further handling
- Transfer to the cloud to be interrogated by the ZEISS apps team for improved results, methods and workflows
Be in Direct Contact with Your Instrument Wherever You Are
- Fully connect remotely for diagnostic, monitoring and data export
- Interpret results anywhere in the world
- Enable your global team to be a mouse-click away
Applications
With MinSCAN, you can produce trending data by running bulk mineralogy analyses 24/7.
Use MinSCAN for troubleshooting, plant monitoring, early gangue rejection, feasibility and exploration:
- Model Mineralogy
- Assay
- Mineral association
- Liberation
- Particle size distribution
- Grain size distribution
- Exposed particle surface
- Daily, weekly, monthly trend charts
- Grade recovery curve
- Cumulative liberation yield






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ZEISS MinSCAN
The Core of Your Mine-Site Mineralogy Laboratory
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ZEISS Microscopy Solutions for Gold Ores
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Mineralogic Reservoir
Your Dedicated Solution for Digital Petrophysical Analysis
Mineralogic Reservoir combines a scanning electron microscope with one or more EDS detectors, a mineral analysis engine and a range of oil and gas specific outputs.
Mineralogic Reservoir is the industry's petrographic investigation tool of choice, answering a wide range of questions of your sample to enhance extractive processes and give operators a leading edge in recovery.
Highlights
Tailor Your Mineral Classification Technique
- For maximum accuracy, use the highly sensitive technique of fully quantitative EDS
- For the fastest analysis speeds, choose BSD greyscale mineral classification
- Combine both techniques with morphology-based mineral classification to achieve highest flexibility
Classify Unknown Samples Easily
- Easily characterize rock textures using quantitative EDS
- Create a mineral classification library for a new sample in just hours instead of weeks, significantly reducing the need to use XRD or microphobe data
- Copy mineral libraries to other instruments as they are not machine specific
Count on High Productivity
- Measure and classify minerals in real-time
- Use the advanced reporting tool to generate comprehensive reports
- Achieve maximum automation and productivity with a 16-stub sample holder and a range of ZEISS SEMs, configurable between one and four energy dispersive spectrometers (EDS)
Applications
With Mineralogic Reservoir you carry out fully quantitative evaluation throughout the process of ore exploration, discovery and production.
Use Mineralogic Reservoir for:
- Pore imaging
- Pore morphology
- Porosity quantification
- Frackability
- Bulk mineralogy
- Oil & gas window marker identification
- Lithotyping
- Mineral mapping
- Digital rock physics modelling
- Multiscale imaging workflow
- Clay classification
- Organics imaging
- Organic morphology
- Organic quantification






Platforms
Choose the ZEISS SEM platform that best suits your applications: conventional, field emission or ruggedized systems.
- ZEISS EVO is the industry standard platform for automated mineralogy and is in operation worldwide in mineral processing laboratories
- The column isolation valve allows fast sample transfer and chamber pumpdown, making it the ideal SEM for 24/7 operation
- Choose between three chamber sizes – 10, 15 or 25 – to get the right system for your application
- Use EVO in variable pressure mode for easy analysis of uncoated samples and organics, shortening your time to result
- Enhance your resolution capability with a choice of three beam source technologies including LaB6.
- ZEISS SIGMA HD has two dedicated diametrically opposite EDS ports for high speed mineral mapping with an optional third port for the highest detector solid angle on the market
- Combined with the high definition BSD, SIGMA HD provides both unrivalled materials contrast and high count rate X-Ray detection for ultimate productivity during mapping
- SIGMA HD is available in both high vacuum and variable pressure configurations and comes as standard with dedicated SE1 and SE2 detectors for superior porosity analysis
- ZEISS Crossbeam is the most advanced high throughput focused ion beam platform ever produced
- Capable of gallium ion milling currents of 100 nA, a 15 x 15 x 15 micron data cube can now be acquired in just 8 hours with sub 10 nm z resolution
- Performing automated mineral analysis in situ drastically enhances workflow productivity while automatically correlating 2D and 3D datasets
Mineralogic Mining
Your Solution for Automated Mineral Analysis
Highlights
With Atlas 5 you can compare and correlate data from any ZEISS microscope system. Combine images from the same region of interest, acquired with optical, electron, ion and X-ray microscopes. Atlas 5 is your disrputive technology for correlative data interaction in mining and geoscience.
Tailor your system to analyze any mineral
- For maximum accuracy, use the highly sensitive technique of fully quantitative, standards-based EDS
- For the fastest analysis speeds, choose BSD greyscale mineral classification
- Combine both techniques with morpho-chemical mineral classifications to achieve highest flexibility
Simple Ore Body Characterization
- Easily characterize new ore bodies using quantitative EDS
- Create a mineral library to classify an unknown ore body in just hours instead of weeks with advanced data reporting suite
- Significantly reduce the need to use XRD or microprobe data
Count on High Productivity
- Measure and classify minerals in real-time
- Use the advanced reporting tool to generate comprehensive reports
- Achieve maximum automation and productivity with a 16-stub sample holder and a range of ZEISS SEMs, configurable between one and four energy dispersive spectrometers (EDS)
Applications
With Mineralogic Mining you carry out fully quantitative evaluation throughout the process of ore exploration, recovery and tailings-control.
Use Mineralogic Mining for:
- Quantification of ore types based on chemical and textural characteristics
- Predictive behavior for mineral processing of mine blocks
- Blending strategies of bulk commodities
- Ore valuation and ore characterization
- Environmental control and forensics
- Mineral mapping
- Cement analysis and applied mineralogy
- Lithotyping





Platforms
Choose the ZEISS SEM platform that best suits your applications: conventional, field emission or ruggedized systems.
- ZEISS EVO is the industry standard platform for automated mineralogy and is in operation worldwide in mineral processing laboratories
- The column isolation valve allows fast sample transfer and chamber pumpdown, making it the ideal SEM for 24/7 ore processing
- Choose between three chamber sizes – 10, 15 or 25 – to get the right system for your application
- Use EVO in variable pressure mode for easy analysis of uncoated samples, shortening your time to result
- Enhance your resolution capability and source lifetime by selecting a LaB6 electron source
ZEISS SIGMA for Research into Ore Processing
- SIGMA is a high resolution field emission SEM capable of nanoscale imaging
- Distinguish minerals of similar average atomic weight by grayscale alone (0.07 atomic mass unit resolution)
- The multi-purpose nature of SIGMA allows it to perform a range of complementary analytical techniques for maximum flexibility
MinSCAN Ruggedized SEM hardware for challenging environments
- Use the data from ZEISS MinSCAN to increase profitability with greater process control and reduced losses to tailings
- Operate the system and interpret results from anywhere in the world to remotely optimize data, methods and workflows
- Over 100 ruggedized SEM installations worldwide covering a range of challenging environments and applications