Within the well-equipped Material Analysis Workshop at the University of Miskolc, researchers and teaching staff have access to unique instrumental capabilities, facilitating comprehensive investigations of minerals and various industrial materials. This includes rocks, raw materials, processed mineral products, wastes, byproducts, as well as modern and archaeological materials.
SERVICES:
- X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION
- Crystal structure-based mineralogical investigations
- Quantitative mineralogical composition and crystal structure refinement
- Non-destructive investigation of material surfaces
- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION ANALYSIS WITH XRF METHOD
- Chemical analysis using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry
- Investigation of powder samples and fused glass pellets
- OPTICAL AND ELECTRON OPTICAL LABORATORY
- Polarizing light microscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy and chemical analysis
- SAMPLE PREPARATION
- Cutting of large (up to 30x30x30 cm) rock blocks
- Precision sample cutting
- Polished slabs and thin sections with vacuum embedding in epoxy resin
- Powder sample preparation with high-frequency vibrational ball mill (<0.02 mm)
- Separation by centrifuging
- Heavy mineral separation in politungstate media
- 3D LABORATORY
- Integrated 3D laboratory for nanoscale 3D analysis
- Quantitative structural and compositional data offered by four main instruments
- Electron beam microanalysis with WDX and EDX spectrometers: Jeol JXA-8600 Superprobe
- X-ray powder diffractometers: Bruker D8 Advance and Bruker D8 Discover
- Schottky field emission gun-equipped Thermo Scientific Helios G4 PFIB CXe scanning electron microscope
- Rigaku Supermini XRF instrument
REFERENCES:
- “Fundamental research into the exploitation of the economic development potentials of critical raw materials in international co-operation” CriticEl (TÁMOP-4.2.2.A-11/1/KONV-2012-0005) (CriticEl Project)
- UNEXMIN Project
- REEBAUX Project
- “RING 2017 – Thematic network for sustainable raw material management” (EFOP-3.6.2-16-2017-000010) (RING 2017)
- Stockwork Ltd. (Romania): Mineralogical investigation of ore samples (2015)
- RAG-Hungary Ltd. (Hungary): Petrographical and sedimentological analysis of the Kiha-003 well (2015)
- Geoprodukt Ltd. (Hungary): Investigation of zeolitic tuffs from Mád (2016)
- Boliden Mineral AB (Sweden): Analysis of ore samples from Aitik North, XRPD phase identification with Rietveld refinement (2017)
- PT J Resources Nusantara (Indonesia): Quantitative mineralogical investigation by Rietveld-refinement on X-ray Powder Diffraction data (2017)
