Rock Crushing Laboratory

  • BICO WD Chipmunk Jaw Crusher
    • Jaw capacity 2 3/8″ x 4″
  • BICO UA Pulverizer
    • Accepts 1/4″ dry friable material and reduce it to a fine powder of 150-200 mesh size at approximately 1lb/min. 
  • FRITSCH Pulverisette 5 Planetery Ball Mill
    • Sample grinding is primarily communited by high-energy impacts from grinding balls and partially by friction between balls and the grinding bowl wall.
    • Agate grinding bowls & various size grinding agate balls
  • FRITSCH Pulverisette 2 Mortar Grinder
    • For grinding of medium-hard-brittle to soft brittle materials (dry or in suspension) to analytical (10-20um).

Rock Processing & Polishing Laboratory

  • Felker Rock Saw
    • 10″ continuous rim diamond blade 
  • Hillquist Slab Saw
    • 14″ continuous and segmented diamond blades
  • Delta Core Drill
    • Floor standing drill press converted to sample for Paleomagnetic studies 
  • Buehler Cast Iron Laps
    • Three 10″ cast iron laps.
    • Various SiC abrasives for grinding and polishing
  • Diamond Pacific Vibra-Polisher
    • Large slab polisher
    • guide to using the polisher

Thin-Sectioning Laboratory

  • Hillquist Thinsection machine
    • thin section cut-off saw and grinder incorporated into one unit used to prepare thin sections of mounted samples
  • Ratiopax 1 grinder/polisher
    • various diamond grinding laps 45um, 30um, 15um 
  • Buehler Polishing laps
    • Four 8″ brass laps setup for diamond paste polishing (9um, 6um, 1um, 0.5um)

Microscopy Laboratory

  • Nikon Eclipse Ci POL & Nikon DS-Ri2 Camera
  • Olympus BX51 & Nikon DXM1200 Camera
  • Nikon Eclipse 50i POL – four microscopes available
  • Nikon LaboPhot2-POL with Dual Teaching Port
  • Nikon LaboPhot2-POL – four microscopes available
  • Nikon LaboPhot-POL with Dual Teaching Port
  • Nikon LaboPhot-POL – four microscopes available
  • Olympus BX51 with Dual Teaching Port
  • Olympus BX41 – one microscope available

Microscopy Accessories

  • Lietz Universal Stage – 4 axis
  • Nikon Universal Stage – 5 axis
  • Swift/Hacker Instrument Stage & Electronic Counter
  • Cargille Immersion Oils & Refractive Index Fluids