Your challenge is to reduce the cost of discovery, which is made easier by using advanced techniques to identify potential mineral deposits.
Techniques to characterize elemental abundance are widely used, however greater emphasis is being placed on the need to identify the mineralogy and texture of samples. Laboratory optical microscopy analyses correlated to automated mineralogy are now key tools to understand the geological structure, synthesis and mineralization events that have shaped a potential deposit.
Unique ZEISS quantitative EDX based technology further simplifies your workflow through the ability to use automated mineralogy data to calibrate the mass spectrometer. This enables high throughput screening of specimens.
During exploration, the requirement to understand the geological environment is critical to the discovery process. An accurate geological model requires that you analyze many samples of rock for the presence of mineral and elemental indicators and is extremely time consuming. Modern valuable mineral deposits are found at lower concentrations, in complex textures and often sub-surface.