Leica ACE600 coater

• Carbon thread coating

• Iridium coating

• Planetary drive stage

• CSIRO modified for inert sample exchange

Technoorg – Linda SEMPrep2

• 100 eV- 16 keV
• Slope cutting holder
• CSIRO-Technoorg developed inert sample transfer capability

Cutting and grinding

• Lapmaster grinder / lapping machine

• Bench top Diamond Grinder

• Struers Accutom 5 High Speed Precision Cut-Off saw

• Buehler ISOMET Low Speed Precision Cut-Off saw

• Logitech 12″ Saw set up for Thin section production

• Gemmasta 10″ Bench top slab saw

• KLM 16″ slab saw

• Vibratory polisher

• Struers Planopol-2 Polisher/grinder with Pedemax-2 power heads and fittings

Sample mounting

• Buehler Simplimet II Mounting presses with fittings and heat sleeves
• Equipment for vacuum and high pressure epoxy mounting

Sample Polishing

• Vibratory polisher
• Struers Planopol-2 Polisher/grinder with Pedemax-2 power heads and fittings

Glove box

• Inert sample preparation for reactive samples
• Argon gas
• <1ppm O2 and H2O
• Sample polishing

Analytical

• Centrifuge and vacuum filtration separation equipment
• Wet chemical selective extraction and dissolution for XRF and ICP-OES analysis
• Flux fusion for wet dissolution
• Specialty oxidising fusions for XRF glass disk preparation
• 30-tonne hydraulic press and dies for making briquettes for XRF analysis
• Liquid/loose powder XRF sample cups
• 1200ºC Muffle furnace

NORM laboratory

Sample preparation of low level radioactive materials in ARPANSA licenced NORM laboratory