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Mineral Separation
Facility: |
Mineral Separation |
Staff: |
Dr David Chew |
Location |
Museum Building TCD and Unit 7, Trinity Technology And Enterprise Centre (TTEC), Pearce Street. |
Activities supported: |
Separating minerals by density (water shaking table, heavy liquid separation) and by magnetic properties (magnetic separation) from fine-grained (< 300 μm) crushed rock samples. Mineral picking and imaging. |
Equipment |
- Gemeni GT 60 mineral shaking table with automated hopper / feeder system for separating dense minerals crushed rock samples.
- Separating funnels for heavy liquid separation of mineral separates with a recovery device for disassociating methylene iodide (MI) from MI-acetone mixtures.
- Frantz LB-1 and Chas. Cook laboratory magnetic separators for separating ferro- and paramagnetic minerals.
- Nikon SMZ-1500 mineral picking microscope with cross-polarizers and a Mako 419G GigE camera.
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