Lawrence, MA – May 31, 2016 – Quickly and accurately identify pathfinder minerals associated with high sulfidation epithermal deposits using an oreXpress field mineral analyzer and EZ-ID mineral ...

The MIST team, from left to right, Yueyang Jiang, Kirsten Siebach, Gelu Costin and Eleanor Moreland (Photo credit: Linda Fries/Rice University). Identifying a mineral might sound straightforward: ...

Lawrence, MA – April 1, 2014 – The oreXpress spectrometer with EZ-ID software can provide critical real-time mineral identification for key alteration zones and diagnostic minerals in porphyry copper ...

Identification of minerals founded on BSE signal segmentation can be challenging as some minerals have comparable BSE intensities. Advanced Mineral Identification and Characterization System (AMICS) ...

The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions--is really hard to analyze without some sample loss. But a new technique should make it ...

Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...

Minerals are naturally occurring, non-living compounds of elements. They are the building blocks of rocks. Geologists are greatly interested in minerals because they can reveal an enormous amount ...