Blogs and Articles for Petrography
6th April 2023A Vital Tool in Mineral & Petroleum Exploration
Mineral and petroleum exploration is a crucial aspect of the natural resources industry...
8th April 2020Mineralogy / Mineral Sample Preparation
The first step is sectioning. The aim of sectioning is to obtain a small piece of sample from big specimens...
26th May 2015Sample Preparation - Fixing rock samples to glass slides
How to glue rock samples to glass slides using Geofix (for non porous samples) and Vacumet (vacuum impregnation for porous rock samples).
2nd September 2016Petrographic Thin Section Preparation
In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section is a laboratory preparation of a rock, mineral, soil, pottery, bones, even metal sample for use with...
