Pathfinder & Indicator Minerals in Exploration
介绍
指标矿物质
With the costs of mineral exploration ever increasing so do needs for robust approaches to evaluating regional prospectivity and improved target refinement. Pathfinder and indicator minerals provide a means to evaluate large areas for their mineral potential and eliminate likely barren areas from consideration before expending further on drilling.
布鲁克is actively working with industry leaders to develop new approaches for analysis that allow improved mineral identification and compositional characterization workflows. Understanding that accurate data allows upscaling to metallogeny models at the district-scale and beyond, Bruker is committed to building instrumentation and software that produces the right data outputs for any program. Bruker systems allow any company to eliminate impediments presented by a lack of analytical expertise, with solutions designed for in-house laboratories and regional exploration offices. Bruker’s worldwide geology team can help find the appropriate solution for all regional exploration needs.
区域探索的轮辋
Resistant Mineral Indicators of Regional Prospectivity and Fertility
岩浆和水热矿物具有抵抗风化的矿物质，因此在土壤中最终被矿物质或溪流沉积物越来越靶向矿物勘探，作为对整个地区或区域前景或矿化媒介的测试。可数据矿物质（例如锆石，磷灰石，钛铁矿和金红石）等可数据矿物质的关键痕量元素为岩浆化学提供了窗口，包括结晶温度，分馏程度，水分含量和氧化状态，并具有直接与来源岩石时代联系的地球化学数据以及他们相关的岩浆事件。必威官网体育下载在矿化事件期间形成的耐药性矿物提供了直接证据，证明了冰川沉积物的水棚或上游的水热改变区域的暴必威官网体育下载露，其化学作用指向矿物化与贫瘠环境，甚至歧视沉积物类型。
布鲁克provides solutions to the different analytical needs of resistant indicator mineral (RIMS) exploration programs:
- M4龙卷风和M4龙卷风PLUSMicro-XRF可快速扫描最小准备的样品，以提供空间位置的地球化学数据。使用地球化学代理来识别矿物或整合地图以计算散装组成，扫描散落或完整的岩石的松散或完整的岩石的扫描或涂层的散射架子，碎石或完整的岩石。
- AMICS Automated Mineralogy for M4 TORNADO微型XRF和扫描电子显微镜允许两个水平的矿物学鉴定和表征。M4龙卷风AMICS在不需要抛光或导电涂层的情况下，提供了对松散样品的快速扫描和评估，提供了一阶数据，以将其重新提供为决策，并筛选进一步分析。SEM的Amics是一种更传统的自动化矿物学方法，可与抛光样品一起工作，但具有先进的数据收集和Bruker Amics软件的减少功能。SEM和M4龙卷风完全兼容两种解决方案可以工作吗in tandem.
远端改变足迹
Mineral Indicators of Distal Alteration Footprints
改变矢量和生育能力筛查代表了早期探索技术，在暴露有限或勘探正在处理部分或广泛覆盖的地方，其应用。该技术旨在访问在改变矿物质中保存的低水平地球化学异常，即使在从矿化中心的显着距离处检测变化，以向量朝向目标和评估目标距离，并评估潜在的生育能力或赋。常见的靶矿物包括在“绿岩”环境中的附属物和氯酸盐，铝矿或粘土矿物质，以帮助在岩石片环境中或白色云母中进行矢量，或者可能发生在变化区域的远端范围内，但提供了用于沉积类型，临近区域的线索，附近，邻近。和生育。
布鲁克analytical solutions allow our customers to focus on their exploration needs and refine their targeting and vectoring strategies.
- M4龙卷风和M4龙卷风PLUSmicro-XRF provides rapid scanning of drill core, RC chips and sediment samples to generate geochemical maps and identify alteration minerals. Integrate area scans to calculate accurate bulk compositions, or from sub-domains selected from within maps to compare compositions in heterogeneously altered rocks. Data exports can be integrated with existing geochemical modeling programs for calculation of alteration indices or construction of 3-D models to support robust decision making.
- AMICSfor Scanning Electron Microscope provides the next level of Automated Mineralogy solutions for alteration mineral chemistry and detection of distal footprints. Automated rapid (short count) mineral identification may be supplemented with drive-back long-count quantification for accurate characterization of greenrock and distal footprint indicator minerals
批量样品
Pathfinder Minerals in Bulk Samples
Greenfields探索的需求通常需要快速，低成本的解决方案来筛选散装样品。筛选方法将探路元素作为代理，以在现场做出决策，或将样品引导到适当的矿物学或组成分析技术。为了快速筛选批量样品以可能存在探路者矿物质解决方案包括：
- The Titan handheld XRF, built with a ruggedized case andTITANDetector Shield guaranteed to protect the detector window and optional safety-interlocked benchtop stand, for the most portability and flexibility in analyzing from Mg to U
- TheCTX, a new portable single-sample ruggedized countertop XRF with battery backup for analyzing from Mg to U
