Listed below are news stories relating to applied mineralogy and analytical techniques in the mineral processing and extractive metallurgy industies. The date on which they were added to this page is in brackets.

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• QEMSCAN^® R-series Delivers Data On-the-spot (May 7, 2008)
  


• Intellection Ranked 7th BRW Fast Starter Company (Apr.29, 2008)
  


• High-tech Mineralogy Research Center Opens in Colorado (Apr.23, 2008)
  


• QEMSCAN Coal Analysis Technology to Aid Efficient, Greener Electricity (Mar.31, 2008)
  


• Bruker AXS Launches GEO-QUANT for the S8 TIGER X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (Mar.24, 2008)
  


• Synchroton may be Invaluable for Improving Nickel Processing (Mar.13, 2008)
  


• ABB Switzerland Ltd Combines its Analyzer and Software Businesses (Mar.12, 2008)
  


• Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands Materials and Minerals Business in South Australia (Mar.11, 2008)
  


• Mintek Expands its Analytical Capability (Feb.29, 2008)
  


• Mineral Analysis Companies Reviewed (Feb.29, 2008)
  


• Thermo Fisher Scientific Brings Online Analysis Expertise to Minerals Industry (Feb.26, 2008)
  


• Intellection Establishes a Foothold in Russia (Feb.20, 2008)
  


• Leading Minerals Analysis Company Expands to Wales (Feb.1, 2008)
  


• Intellection works up through the ranks in Fast 500 (Dec.22, 2007)
  


• Intellection Revels in Winning Recent Export Award (Dec.5, 2007)
  


• Intellection wins 2nd Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award (Dec.4, 2007)
  


• Intellection Acquires Mineral Services Business in UK (Oct.12, 2007)
  


• MMC Norilsk Nickel and ALS Laboratory Group Announce Mineral Assay and Geochemical Analysis Joint Venture in Russia (Sept.27, 2007)
  


• SGS Minerals Services opens new lab in Chita, Russia (Sept.21, 2007)
  


• Carl Zeiss SMT and Intellection Announce Strategic Partnership in Automated Mineralogy Systems (Sept.12, 2007)
  


• JKTech partners with ALS to form ALS Mineralogy (Aug.29, 2007)
  


• Advanced X-ray Microanalysis Capability for QEMSCAN^® (Jul.11, 2007)
  


• Spectro Campus Online: Spectro Adds a Free E-Learning Platform to its New Website (Jul.11, 2007)
  


• New Sample Prep Facility in Smithers, BC (Jun.25, 2007)
  


• New Sample Prep Facility in Turkey (Jun.5, 2007)
  


• Another Blue Cube Systems Export Consignment to Australia (May 6, 2007)
  


• SGS Minerals Services Opens New Lab in Chennai, India (May 4, 2007)
  


• Special Issue of Automated Mineralogy Published (Apr.2, 2007)
  


• New Sample Prep Facility in Mexico (Mar.7, 2007)
  


• Intellection Provides Safer, Faster Mineral Analysis (Feb.7, 2007)
  


• $5m Grant Will Help Create Portable Diagnostic Tools for Explorers (Nov.27, 2006)
  


• Major Gold Producer Adopts Aussie Minerals Technology (Nov.8, 2006)
  


• SPECTRO iSORT - The New Arc for Metal Analysis (Sept.15, 2006)
  


• SGS Opens New Laboratory in Lakefield, Canada as Part of Advanced Mineralogy Network (Aug.30, 2006)
  


• Turnkey On-stream Analysis System to Deliver High Efficiencies for Perilya Broken Hill (Aug.24, 2006)
  


• New Blue Cube Spot Mineral Quantifier (Aug.23, 2006)
  


• Australia's Intellection Forges Alliance with MEI (Jul.28, 2006)
  


• JKTech Celebrate Queensland's Smart Awards 2006 (Jul.5, 2006)
  


• MLA Expansion Continues Unabated (Jul.5, 2006)
  


• Mineral Liberation Analyser (MLA) Technology Advances into China (Jul.3, 2006)
  


• XRF Analyser for Whole Spectrum of Elements (Jun.9, 2006)
  


• The Latest Generation of SPECTRO XEPOS EDXRF Instrument (May 16, 2006)
  


• Synchrotron Science at The Wark gets Boost from new Australian End-station (May 4, 2006)
  


• Microprobe to Closely Examine Minerals (Apr.10, 2006)
  


• Spin-out Company Hits the Ground Running (Mar.30, 2006)
  


• Bruker AXS Launches Innovative S8 TIGER X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectrometer for Elemental Analysis in Industrial Applications (Mar.27, 2006)
  


• PANalytical Launches Axios-Minerals (Mar.1, 2006)
  


• Knelson Introduces Rotary Sample Splitter (Jan.20, 2006)
  


• Intellection Welcomes Struers to Brisbane Headquarters (Dec.20, 2005)
  


• SGS Minerals Services expands with new Quantitative Mineralogy Alliance (Dec.12, 2005)
  


• Chinese Mining Giant Adopts Aussie Analyser (Nov.18, 2005)
  


• Newmont Mining Awards Contract to SGS in Ghana (Nov.10, 2005)
  


• BHP Billiton Expands Automation Mineral Analysis Capability with QEMSCAN^TM (Nov.10, 2005)
  


• Top Honours for Brisbane-based Exporter (Nov.3, 2005)
  


• Emerging Exporter A Winner (Oct.14, 2005)
  


• SGS Opens New Sample Preparation Lab in Elko, Nevada (Jul.28, 2005)
  


• Cerro Verde Takes Delivery of QEMSCAN^TM (May 9, 2005)
  


• PANalytical Announces the Opening of its new Regional Application Laboratory in Shanghai, China (May 9, 2005)
  


• Falconbridge Expands with a New QEMSCAN^TM (May 4, 2005)
  


• Thermo Electron Introduces Mass Spectrometer for Wide Concentration Range Elemental Analyses (Apr.12, 2005)
  


• A Question of Quality - A Review of the Importance of Sample Preparation for XRF Analysis (Mar.24, 2005)
  


• Business Booming for MLA System (Mar.10, 2005)
  


• JKTech’s Mineral Liberation Analysis Group Progresses (Dec.21, 2004)
  


• Bruker AXS Wins Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award in X-ray Diffraction (Dec.8, 2004)
  


• Mintek Accredited for PGM Assay Methods (Oct.20, 2004)
  


• Thermo Electron Introduces X-ray Microanalysis (Oct.18, 2004)
  


• Celebrating over 50 years of Innovation in Analytical X-ray (Sept.16, 2004)
  


• Call for Proposals: Analytical and Computational Centre for Ore Deposits (Aug.12, 2004)
  


• Haber Announces the Completion of Analytical Laboratory and Initiation of Pilot Bulk Testing Program (Jun.23, 2004)
  


• PANalytical Introduces Axios - The Next Step in X-ray Analysis (Jun.22, 2004)
  


• New Preparation Facility in Yellowknife, NT (Jun.21, 2004)
  


• PANalytical Introduces Axios - The Next Step in X-ray Analysis (Apr.8, 2004)
  


• Bruker AXS Launches EQUA ALL - The New Standardless Solution for Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (Apr.6, 2004)
  


• New ICP MS for Perth Minerals (Apr.5, 2004)
  


• Oxford Cryosystems Launch Cobra- The New Non-Liquid Cryostream (Mar.30, 2004)
  


• Oxford Cryosystems Announce the Launch of the N-HeliX (Jan.26, 2004)
  


• State of the Art in Cement Laboratories (Dec.22, 2003)
  


• Applied Mineralogy '03 Papers Published (Dec.9, 2003)
  


• New Bruker AXS Office in Brazil (Nov.24, 2003)
  


• JKMRC Researchers Take a Closer Look at the Material World (Nov.14, 2003)
  


• Spectra-Map Launches Real-Time Mineral Analysis Logging Service (Nov.12, 2003)
  


• Free e-booklet Download: Quick Assays in Mineral Identification (Oct.24, 2003)
  


• Mintek Expands Analytical Facilities (Oct.20, 2003)
  


• Robolab Boosts Process Control (Oct.17, 2003)
  


• Orespex Rock Identification Analyser System (Sept.4, 2003)
  


• Diamond Fingerprinting (Aug.29, 2003)
  


• PANalytical boasts X'Pert analysis (Jun.24, 2003)
  


• Phelps Dodge Continues With QemSCAN (Jun.24, 2003)
  


• Probing the sulphur content in rock and coal (Jun.6, 2003)
  


• Teck Cominco and Mintek join MLA party (Jun.3, 2003)
  


• Mineral liberation analyser for Mintek (May 19, 2003)
  


• Brazilian Mining Giant Buys CSIRO Technology (May 8, 2003)
  


• Public Website Release of Data Metallogenica (Apr.22, 2003)
  


• New XRF Benchtop Analyser (Apr.14, 2003)
  


• PANalytical Launches the Epsilon 5, An Edxrf Spectrometer Optimized for Low-Level Detection of Heavy Elements (Apr.2, 2003)
  


• SII Launches Spectral Libraries and Software (Mar.11, 2003)
  


• Anglo Platinum announces third MLA system (Mar.4, 2003)
  


• Free Testing of your Dry or Liquid Samples (Feb.10, 2003)
  


• Rapid Acid/Base Titrations (Jan.24, 2003)
  


• The RTMS technology: dream or reality? (Jan.15, 2003)
  


• SGS Lakefield opens new lab (Jan.3, 2003)
  


• CSIRO adds neutron probe to SIROLOG (Jan.3, 2003)
  


• Ash Analysis Using Natural Gamma (Dec.17, 2002)
  


• Spectris completes Philips acquisition (Oct.11, 2002)
  


• The New S2 RANGER X-ray Spectrometer Touch´n Analyze (Oct.9, 2002)
  


• PheniX - A Novel Helium Cryostat Design For Flat Plate Powder Diffraction (Sept.16, 2002)
  


• Philips to sell X-ray business (Aug.12, 2002)
  


• New Hybrid Spectrometer (May 15, 2002)
  


• New High-Energy Ion Beam Microscope (Feb.4, 2002)
  


• Philips Pushes Analytical Limits (Dec.4, 2001)