Project description
Streamlining mining operations with X-ray fluorescence analysis
Rapid and accurate sample analysis improves the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of mineral exploration and mining. The EU-funded IBERIA XRF project is developing a tiny probe that uses X-ray fluorescence, a non-destructive analytical technique used to determine the elemental composition of materials with outstanding accuracy. The analytical technique determines the chemistry of a sample by measuring the fluorescent X-ray emitted by it when excited by a primary X-ray source. Unlike traditional methods, such as neutron activation, which are very expensive and time consuming, X-ray fluorescence will decrease exploration costs and duration by over 80 %. By 2026, the project expects to have sold more than 300 units and to have generated over EUR 20 million in revenue.
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Funding Scheme
SME - SME instrument
Coordinator
76307 Karlsbad
Germany
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