SERVICES: Bulk Mineral Scan

Scope of the study, deliverables and methodology

  • Bulk Mineralogy including qualitative Sulphides/Fe-Oxides mineralogy
  • Morphology and semi-quantitative liberation and association of Sulphides/Fe-Oxides
  • Manual point counting analysis data
  • Photomicrographs for Sulphides/Fe-Oxides association
  • Gangue mineralogy from X-ray Powder Diffraction Analysis
  • SEM-EDS/Micro-probe compositional analysis of altered phases


Bulk Mineral Scan designed to provide the overview of mineralogical/petrographic information of new samples and problematic products. This study consists of:

  • brief petrographic examination, photomicrographs, estimating grain sizes, associations and abundances
  • point-counting exercise for sulphides/Fe-Oxide phases, liberation and association data
  • XRD examination on the non-opaques (silicates/carbonates)


General Mineral Scan is not quantitative mineralogy analysis but provides an overview for broad problem-solving assistance for the metallurgists.


Silicates: pyroxene (Pxn), amphibole (Amp), quartz (Qtz), mica (Mica) and fluorite (Flu).


Irregular patches/veins of scheelite (Sch) within pyroxene (Pxn) and fluorite (Flu).


Locked magnetite (Mt) within chlorite (Cl), quartz (Qtz) and feldspar (Fel).


Locked pentlandite (Pn) within pyrrhotite (Po), liberated chalcopyrite (Cp) and magnetite (Mt).


Composite pyrite (Py), chalcocite (Cc), chalcopyrite (red lines) and silicates (Si).