Applications
Applications
X-ray Mineral Services has extensive experience in geo-materials analysis across a broad range of industrial sectors. We can deploy a suite of technologies to provide clients with a targeted analytical solution or a multi-disciplinary elemental, mineralogical and textural workflow for a comprehensive and forensic characterisation.
Our services are widely used in the oil and gas sector to characterise reservoir and source rocks for assessment of reservoir quality, modelling depositional setting, provenance or climate. Elemental and mineralogical data are routinely used to calibrate petrophysical logs and are used as proxies to aid in modelling rock mechanics for completions optimisations.
- Extensive experience in geo-materials analysis
- Comprehensive characterisation of Critical Raw Materials and battery mineral extractive industry
- Characterisation of bricks, tiles, aggregates, cement and slate
The X-ray Mineral Services capability is in high demand for the comprehensive characterisation of Critical Raw Materials and the battery mineral extractive industry. Our cross validated multi-disciplinary META1 (Minerals, Elements, Texture and Analysis) workflow provides a high resolution toolbox for CRM and battery mineral characterisation. Our META workflow includes QXRD, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy and Automated Mineralogy (SEM-EDX)® for mineral analysis, ICP, XRF, LIBS, Automated Mineralogy (SEM-EDX)® for elemental analysis, and Raman spectroscopy, digital petrography, Automated Mineralogy (SEM-EDX)® and laser particle size analysis for textural characterisation). Our META1 characterisation capability can be deployed across the full value chain, from the assessment of ores and polymetallic resources, optimisation of mineral processing and mineral refinement, to battery manufacture and the recycling of battery and e-wastes. Our CRM and battery mineral capability is focused via our experienced Finnish team who are working in one of the most progressive energy transition sectors in the world.
The company also has a long track record of providing services to the construction materials sector. This involves the characterisation of bricks, tiles, aggregates, cements and slates with a focus on the assessment and analysis of raw materials and quality control for manufactured products. META1 techniques are also used in renovation and architecture projects to ensure the accurate typing of materials used in repairs.
Site investigation and large scale infrastructure projects require data on the composition of the bedrock, soils and sediments and our services are routinely deployed for characterisation of such materials. META1 techniques can also be deployed along with other supplementary instruments to aid in environmental monitoring, clean up and remediation studies.
X-ray Mineral Services has also been involved in many other sectors such as pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, archaeology etc.
We have developed a META2 workflow based on the utilisation of portable instrumentation suitable for deployment in the field, at wellsite, during mine processing, and the refinement and recycling of black waste. This involves technology such as pXRF, FTIR, LIBS and magnetic susceptibility (META2).