Technology
Our in-house SEM enables use to reliably identify the unusual or rare minerals
during routine observation.
Our reference and training sets are possibly without peer in the industry. DuneLabs have exceptional skills in the area of physical wear and chemical alteration of detrital minerals. We can provided special reports on the likely provenance and travel distance of grains of high interest.
We accept special jobs, overflow work, check work and routine batch processing and will modify procedures to the client's requirements.
We are responsive, informative and encourage dialogue from sample submission to discussion on reports. We have captured market share by giving our client's the edge.
Equipment
- Acid Cleaner
- Ultrasonic Cleaner
- Binocular microscopes with polarised light fittings, fibre optic light guides, heavy liquid fume snorkels
- Photographic microscope with ancillary polaroid colour camera and 35mm colour grain photography
- Petrographic microscope
- Reflected light microscope
- Ultraviolet light viewing chamber
- JEOL analytical scanning electron microscope. BED and SED. Polaroid camera back