Construction
- Raw materials for manufacture of roofing tiles, floor and wall tiles, decorative ceramics, bricks and blocks, clay pipes
- Mineral and chemical characterisation of foundation materials and roadstone
- Foundation clay surveys
- Identification of mineralogical composition of concrete
Mining
- Ore - mineralogy and chemical composition
- Mineralogical studies for disposal or reprocessing of tailings
Environmental
- Evaluation of unknown substances in contaminated industrial sites
- Mineralogical studies for disposal or reprocessing of tailings
- Monitoring for respirable quartz and other toxic substances
Quarrying
- Mineral and chemical characterisation of aggregates, quarry products and marine dredged aggregates
- Determination of silica and carbonate content of sand
Pharmaceutical
- Studies into impurities in bio-glass for dental implants
- Quality control of synthetic osteogenic composites for orthopaedics
- Identification of metal fragments contaminating milled feedstock for herbal tablet manufacture
Refractories
- Characterisation and quality control of heat-resistant formulations and cements for furnace linings
Ceramics
- Mineralogical and chemical analysis of refractory clays and raw materials
Architecture
- Calc-silicate brick identification
- Weathering of pyrite-bearing building materials
Oil and gas
- Hydrocarbon reservoir geology
- Formation evaluation
- Source rock investigation
- Mineral depth profiling
- Unconventional applications
- Pipe scale, drilling mud and contamination product identification
Miscellaneous
- Determination of titania polymorphs for the pigments industry
- Mineralogical analysis of jewellery beads to support identification for gemmologists
- Investigation of re-use of spent drilling mud for cat litter
- Identification of contaminants on cocoa beans in storage
- Characterisation of suspect iron ore provenance