Ore Microscope Resources

Ore Microscope

• The Earth’s Crust
  It is already known to us that the earth is composed of rocks and minerals, mainly of ore deposited on the surface of the earth. The earth’s composition is hard crust on the outside and a liquid core of molten rock on the inside. The crust is then populated with uncountable rocks and minerals of read more...


• The Mysterious Case of Columbus’s Silver Ore
  A new research revealed that the silver-bearing ore found by Christopher Columbus during his second expedition was not mined in the Americas. The basis for this revelation was the ore that the researchers excavated from the settlement in La Isabela came from Spain. The ore was examined closely using the ore microscope. The explorers brought read more...


• The Mineral Topaz
  The word Topaz was used by Greeks and Romans to describe a green precious stone as the color of fresh oil or the juice of leeks before the Middle Ages. The gems were discovered on a famous island called Topazios which is presumed today to be Zabargad in the Red Sea. During the Middle Ages read more...


• MUDROCKS
  Mudrocks when viewed closely under the ore microscope are fine grained sedimentary rocks made up mostly of silt and clay size fragments. They are otherwise known as argillites. Since they are grain size, they are hard to examine even with the petrographic microscope. Mudrocks are the most abundant sedimentary rocks, comprising of over sixty five read more...


• Igneous Rock Identification Nature’s Fiery Cauldron
  When a volcano erupts, which involves the ash falls and the magna flowing from the crater, it is a breathtaking view to look at despite it fiery damages. The solidified product of this eruption known as volcanic rocks are part of a larger group of rocks commonly called as igneous rocks. When viewed under the read more...


• Did you know Turquoise is a mineral?
  Here is an article about the basic concepts of light microscopy at University College London, Department of Geography. It discusses the different kinds of light microscopy, taking good care of your microscopes, and some procedures on how to use microscopes and the use of oil immersions. Light microscopy includes dark field, phase contrast and bright read more...


• Process Mineralogy
  Bright field reflected microscopes light, frequently referred to as metallurgical microscopes, are make use of to examine opaque specimens which will not transmit light. read more...


• Early Developments in Ore-Mineral Study
  As there has been a very wide development within the field of ore mineral study during the last three or four decades, it seemed proper at this time to take stock of our knowledge and the important contributors to it. Any human historical document must be, in the very nature of things, somewhat incomplete. read more...


• Ore-Mineral Study
  As there has been a very wide development within the field of ore mineral study during the last three or four decades, it seemed proper at this time to take stock of our knowledge and the important contributors to it. Any human historical document must be, in the very nature of things, somewhat incomplete. read more...


• Microchemical Research
  Of all the avenues of approach followed by investigators of ores, none has been more consistently followed than the avenue of microchemical research. From the time of Becke during 1886, when such etch reagents as nitric and hydrochloric acids and potassium chlorate, can be seen under a microscope, were used to differentiate minerals of the read more...


• Investigation of Maximum Reflectivity and Other Optical Constants, Determination of Anisotropism in Polarized Light, and Spectroscopic Research
  Of all the avenues of approach followed by investigators of ores, none has been more consistently followed than the avenue of microchemical research. From the time of Becke during 1886, when such etch reagents as nitric and hydrochloric acids and potassium chlorate, can be seen under a microscope, were used to differentiate minerals of the read more...