SGS has enhanced its hyperspectral analysis capability in North America by adding a mobile unit, based in Canada.
SGS says the move comes in response to client demand for the service, which is offered by SGS and its partner Corescan in North America. The two entered into an agreement in 2014 to incorporate Corescan’s mineralogical imaging technology into the SGS global laboratory network to service customers in both the minerals and oil and gas sectors.
SGS describes hyperspectral scanning as providing objective mineralogical and geotechnical data from drill core or chips and increasing confidence in resource estimation, domain creation and mine optimization modelling.
The new unit will be moved across Canada to be used to conduct trials and demonstrations, and support exploration and production, where it can deliver mineralogical data for direct application to resource models or production-monitoring programs.
SGS says the mobile unit has state-of-the-art hyperspectral imaging sensors integrated with ultra-high resolution core photography and 3-D core profiling technologies. Data can be independently processed and interpreted in real time by Corescan’s proprietary software. Results can be made available for remote viewing via a web-based virtual core library called “Coreshed.”
Western Australia-based Core-scan specializes in scanning, analyzing and interpreting drill core, rock chips and other geological samples. It serves the mining, oil and gas, geothermal and geotechnical industries.
Swiss-headquartered SGS is a major inspection, verification, testing and certification firm, with 80,000 employees and 1,650 offices and laboratories worldwide.
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