ECORE: A New Fast Automated Quantitative Mineral and Elemental Core Scanner

Scarce platinum group elements (PGE) are mainly concealed in massive sulfides, and finding economically viable ore bodies largely relies on their fast chemical mapping. Most core scanners provide incomplete mineralogical contents, but none also a complete analysis including light elements. This study investigates the performance of fully automated laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) scanner, ECORE, by comparing its reliability to scanning electron microscope-energy dispersive (SEM-EDS) mineral mapper speed infrared diffuse reflectance hyperspectral imagers (IR-HSI). The LIBS elemental imaging has been put test our previous work, as well high-resolution paper reports scaling up analytical applicability high high-speed drill scanner. full tray this is first largest 7.62 megapixels image done scanner knowledge. Both low-resolution data together express both content function depth.