Services
Petrological Investigations
Investigations over the past 40 years, on a routine and project basis, of rock, mineral and ore suites from throughout Australia, and overseas has involved over 10,000 reports for greater than 500 exploration and mining companies, geological survey organisations and metallurgists. Our petrological and mineragraphic studies have included samples from most types of geological provinces and mineral occurrences, numerous non-metallic commodities, also application to process mineralogy, geological mapping, ore genesis and construction materials.
Reporting involves basic descriptive information, also interpretations of mineral assemblages, alteration, genesis with photomicrographs, applicable to the field problems presented to us. The integration of geological, geochemical and geophysical data are encouraged, to maximise the benefits of our summary comments and conclusions.
Chemical, XRD, Microprobe, SEM, Analysis
Geochemical analyses, XRD, SEM and/or electron microprobe investigations which may be integrated with our optical microscopy, or separately, are routinely arranged in Adelaide, mostly with AMDEL, the University of Adelaide Centre for Electron Microscopy and AEC Environmental P/L.
