Our Capabilities

At the Geoscience Drill Core Research Laboratory we have a suite of instruments to provide researchers with detailed information about drill cores.

Sample Handling

Essential to any analysis is sample handling. We have core tray rollers, lifters and pallet racking systems constructed for core logging.

Core tray rollers, lifters and pallet racking constructed for core logging.
Washdown area for core cleaning and assessment.
Various lifters, jib and gantry cranes in both lab and wash down area to adhere to OH&S requirements and eliminate manual handling issues.
Pre-project requirements are in place to assess the presence of hazardous materials (including NORMS, fibrous materials and poisons) in drill core and samples. Correct OH&S procedures and protocols are then put in place according to the project’s requirements.

The Minalyzer uses continuous x-ray florescence scanning of core.
It produces ppm or percentages of the elements against depth within the core sample to give the geochemical makeup from Al – U.
It also takes high resolution core photographs, RQD and some structural measurements such as alphas and betas.
It provides 3D topography of the core and is non-destructive and fast.
It normally runs at 10mm / s and can go to 1mm resolution, although if required it can be adjusted to slower dwell time.

The HyLogger spectral scanner is a rapid spectroscopic logging and imaging system that uses continuous visible and infrared spectroscopy and digital imaging to examine cores, samples and cuttings without destroying them in the process.
HyLogging is a highly automated technology designed by CSIRO to determine drill core mineralogy using rapid reflectance spectroscopy at 400–2500 and 6000 – 14,500 nm wavelength regions.
The HyLogger-3 system is capable of detecting common rock-forming minerals (feldspar, quartz, pyroxene, garnet, olivine, carbonate and phosphate), as well as iron oxides and a number of hydroxyl-bearing minerals (micas, chlorites, amphiboles, clays and sulfates).
It is one of seven instruments in Australia that together make up the AuScope National Virtual Core Library (NVCL) consortium

The Geotek MSCL (multi scale core logger) records P-wave velocity, gamma density, magnetic susceptibility, resistivity, Munsell colour imaging, x-ray florescence, colour spectrophotometry and natural gamma spectrometry.
It is presently the only automated and commercially available scanner that covers this amount of data collection with multiple sensors.
It scans at an average rate of 7m per day, depending on which sensors are selected, at a resolution of 1mm.

The Maia Mapper is a high intensity XRF mapping system designed by CSIRO for efficient, high resolution elemental imaging of drill core sections.
It achieves a special resolution of 30µm and image sizes up to 80 M pixels (over a 500 x 150mm² sample area).

Corescan’s Hyperspectral Core Imager (HCl-4) integrates high resolution reflectance spectroscopy, core photography and 3D laser profiling to map the mineralogical assemblages and textures of drill core, rock chips and other geological samples.
Designed by Corescan, the system offers ultra-high spectral and spatial resolution.