Mineral Separation

Facility

Mineral Separation

Staff

Dr David Chew

Location

Museum Building TCD and Unit 7, Trinity Technology And Enterprise Centre (TTEC), Pearce Street.

Activities supported

Separating minerals by density (water shaking table, heavy liquid separation) and by magnetic properties (magnetic separation) from fine-grained (< 300 μm) crushed rock samples.   Mineral picking and imaging.

Equipment

• Gemeni GT 60 mineral shaking table with automated hopper / feeder system for separating dense minerals crushed rock samples. 
• Separating funnels for heavy liquid separation of mineral separates with a recovery device for disassociating methylene iodide (MI) from MI-acetone mixtures.
• Frantz LB-1 and Chas. Cook laboratory magnetic separators for separating ferro- and paramagnetic minerals.
• Nikon SMZ-1500 mineral picking microscope with cross-polarizers and a Mako 419G GigE camera.