Services

Mineral Exploration Services

We offer services in every step of your Mineral Exploration project:

  • Area review: Compilation of prior work done in the area of interest.
  • Field visits for target evaluation.
  • Contract geologists (e.g. Geoscience students, project geologists, senior geologists)
  • Project management, planning and execution
  • Reporting and contacting with authorities
  • Stakeholder engagement and announcement (e.g. local newspaper) of field work

Petrography

Petrography

We offer petrographical analyses of natural rocks using polarization- and reflected light microscopy from thin sections or polished rock slabs/mounts (only reflected light). Petrographic descriptions can be made from the already existing microscope preparates OR from rock samples that we prepare for the petrography using external thin section preparation labs. Petrographical services and Report includes:

  • Planning and executing sampling campaign for petrographical samples (e.g. drill cores, field sampling)
  • Identification of main- and accessory minerals with visual estimates of the modal percentages
  • Ore mineralogy, mineral associations, textural settings
  • Rock textures
  • Photomicrographs from the representative locations
Mineral geochemistry

Mineral geochemistry

We use external providers to have an access to various types of analytical equipments suitable for mineral composition analyses. Integrated petrographical and mineral compositional analysis dramatically increase the knowledge of your samples as accessory phases and their association along with possible mineral zoning and their compositional differences can be obtained. Most commonly used methods include FE-EPMA (Field Emission Electron Microprobe), FE-SEM (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope) and XRD (X-Ray powder diffraction) in the Centre of Material Analysis in the University of Oulu . Other methodologies are also available and services are always customized according to clients needs. Contact us for further discussions of suitable methods!
Geochemistry and Compositional Data Analysis

Geochemistry and Compositional Data Analysis

Whole-rock geochemistry

We use external geochemical laboratories for whole-rock geochemical analyses. Our services include:

  • Sampling (e.g. Drill core or field sampling)
  • Finding the best analytical method for the project
  • Whole-rock geochemical data processing and interpretation based on the client needs (e.g. lithogeochemistry).

Compositional Data Analysis

Geochemical data is a compositional data, meaning that it is relative values (e.g. wt-%, ppm) and summing up to a unity. Without appropriate pre-processing and data transformations, statistical analyses of geochemical data can result false interpretations. However, whole-rock geochemical data from e.g. drill cores can reveal extremely important information e.g. about the elemental associations, possible signals of different stages of the ore-forming processes. Identification of thes hidden patterns from the data will lead to better understanding of your project area and detection of potential pathfinder elements that can guide your exploration activities. Our services include:

  • Preprocessing of the geochemical data according to the best practices (incl. cleaning and transformation of the data (CLR, ILR))
  • Multivariate statistical analysis
  • Lithogeochemistry
  • Final report including the diagrams and interpretation of the results.