Mineral-Pak™—Powerful major, minor and trace analysis solution for geology, minerals and mining

The earth is a location of dynamic and diverse natural processes that yield an abundance of compounds formed from the 92 naturally occurring elements. Each geological sample is a product of the initial materials present during its formation and the environmental conditions at that time. These permutations and combinations lead to an extreme variety of major, minor and trace element compositions.

Whenever igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic geological materials contain elements of interest for the manufacture of materials, the accurate and precise determination of major, minor and trace elements becomes the analytical goal.

The strategic and economic importance of these materials in a number of different market segments makes identification and quantification of these materials of interest.

Businesses and institutions that would have an interest in this information include:

• Geology departments at universities
• Art and archeology departments at universities
• Manufacturing processes that use geological materials directly
• Mining exploration
• Minerals processors
• Contaminated sites undergoing remediation
• Construction materials and road building aggregate analysis

Accurate and precise major, minor and trace analysis in geological samples is now quick and easy.

Mineral-Pak is the application package developed by Rigaku Americas for academic research, industrial processes and environmental remediation projects. It runs on the high-performance, tube-above wavelength dispersive XRF spectrometer ZSX Primus II and the benchtop Supermini.

Using Mineral-Pak ensures the accurate and precise measurements of your unknowns and makes geochemical analysis a routine daily task. It is based on wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence and performs trace analysis directly on solid samples. No hazardous chemicals oracid digestion are required. Sample preparation is simple, safe and can be carried out by non-technical users. 

Mineral-Pak comes factory-engineer installed and is simple yet elegant in its operation: prepare the sample, set up the analysis request and get excellent results. All matrix and line overlap corrections are done automatically during the data reduction cycle on completion of the analysis.

* Note: Mineral-Pak is only available in North America