Our facilities include the following analytical instruments and laboratory equipment:
Clean Room Facilities (new in 2024)
Two ultra-trace analytical clean rooms with 7 workstations (laminar flow hoods and hotplates)
- 5 acid distillation systems: Savillex DST-1000
- Quartz glass distillation system for HCl purification
- Dedicated weighing room with: 2 weighing workstations, Sartorius MC5 microbalance, Sartorius CP225D balance, Stemi SV 6 stereomicroscope
- Oven room equipped with: muffle furnace, drying cabinet, furnace for acid digestion, ultrasonic bath
- Parr acid digestion system
Mass Spectrometry
- IsotopX Phoenix (installed in 2018)
Equipped with 9 Faraday cups, 1 Daly detector (photomultiplier), 1 SEM, DG60 filament heating station, and laminar flow hood for sample loading.
Sample Preparation/ Mineral Separation
- Rock cutting saw (Goliath 450)
- Wifley-type shaking table
- Frantz magnetic separator
- Exhaust hood for heavy-liquid separation (bromoform and methylene iodide)
- Binocular microscopes for mineral hand-picking