It’s a complete revolution in the industry. In September, we’ve released our fifth generation handheld called VANTA. To dial it down a little bit, and to focus on XRF in particular – and this is where I’d like to just quickly talk about our new offering. And again, if you’d like more information on that, which I’m not going to cover today, we can point you in the right direction. A lot of our tools we use for NDT, and for Alloy, and PMI, and things like oil. There’s one separate business, which we have a nice sort of segue way into, which is around maintenance. And then, at the very backend of the business, we can also play a role in mine closure, and in the environmental business around looking at solar irradiation and contaminated land. From there, we’re able to use that to form the processing division of the business around geometallurgy and aspects of decision-making on chemistry and minerology. We then move into the grade control area where we’ve got systems trying to make real-time decisions around materials and destination of materials. We start with geoscience research, with geological surveys, we then move to mineral exploration, where we’re developing around existing operations. The new systems give us the ability to things like magnesium, aluminum, silicon, to labels that we’ve not been able to do before.Īnd if we start to look at the market now, we play work different parts of industry. So with modern X-Ray tubes and with silicon drift detectors, we can now do a really good job across pretty much the whole periodic table. And essentially, what we’re looking at in the grain is elements that we can get down to low PPM levels. We’ve looked at this many times over the years. Many of you know the periodic table continues to give better coverage and better sensitivity. And then, again, we can quantify that using processing techniques. And we end with a diagnostic fingerprint for each mineral. We’re basically getting the shinning and x-Ray on a sample, we’re looking at diffraction of the mineral layers within each compound. We measure them in a spectre, we quantify them, and that’s what we use to get a quantitative result for each element. X-ray fluorescence, we shot an X-ray on the sample, we use a technique called EDS, so it’s Energy Dispersive XRF, where we’re basically able to get characteristic X-ray back for each element. But again, if you need more information about how the fundamentals work, we can provide you with that. With XRF and XRD, as you would’ve read in the webinar intro, this talk is essentially targeting people who’ve got an existent background in the physics. Again, if you need more information, we can point you to the product managers and the specialists in the microscope business. We have a portable system called a Terra, and a BTX II, which is a slow bench-top system.Īnd the one slide which I’ve got for microscopy is that we have a bunch of solutions from stereo microscopes to the polarizing microscopes and the metallurgical microscopes, which are all around optical mineralogy. If you’d like more information about the other products, feel free to get in contact with us after the webinar.Īnd then, looking at the diffraction systems, we have two offerings there. And then, I’m just going to mention we have some portable bench-tops, some sort of customized smaller systems, as well as our process, and online, and sorting systems as well. Many people are familiar with our DELTA Series handheld. We have the DELTA, which has been the workforce for a good six or seven years now. We have the new VANTA Series handheld, which I’ll explain a little bit in the next section. And again, today we’re just going to focus on the portable products. It’s the gold standard in a lot of ways.īreaking it down to the products. And then, we also have the ability to look at structural properties of geo sites as well through microscopy, or optical minerology, or petrology, which is again, the backbone of what we learn at university when we’re looking at minerology. We get very good, almost lab grade results if we’re doing the right job. We have X-ray fluorescence, which is chemistry. So if we’re looking at this slide, on the top left we can actually derive the amount of minerals so they can quantify them. We’re have complete geoscience solution we have diffraction, which can gives us quantitative minerology. Then, we’re going to focus on pXRF, and work through the products, some of the suggested operating procedures, and then spend a bit of time looking at good references, case studies, and applications. We’re going to do a quick intro to pXRF and pXRD principles and how they work.
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