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