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Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

Modern investigation of minerals and industrial materials

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Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
Modern investigation of minerals and industrial materials

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Overview Services Instruments References

Overview

In the material analysis workshop of the University of Miskolc equipped with unique instrumental capanilities the researchers and didactic staff have the possibility of complex investigations of minerals and industrial materials, such as rocks, raw materials, processed mineral products, wastes and byproducts, modern and archaeological materials.

Competencies – Modern investigation of minerals and industrial materials

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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 by X-ray fluorescens 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 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

The integrated 3D laboratory allows the 3D analysis in the nanoscale domain for almost any type of material
Quantitative structural and compositional data is offered by four main instruments in complementary operation

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 miscroscope
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
UNEXMIN
REEBAUX http://reebaux.gfz.hr/
RING 2017 – Tematic network for sustainable raw material management”
EFOP-3.6.2-16-201700010
Stockwork Ltd. (Romania)
Mineralogical inevstigation 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 Riet- veld refinement (2017)
PT J Resources Nusantara (Indonesia)
Quantitative mineralogical investigation by Rietveld-refinement on X-ray Powder Diffraction data (2017)

Corporate contact

Zsolt István

Head of Department

zsolt.istvan@uni-miskolc.hu +36-30/928-4987

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