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Economic significance of platinum group elements and water in asteroids: Insights from chondritic meteorites
DownloadFall 2017
Asteroids are considered to be rich sources of precious metals, water, and essential volatiles for life. Such a consideration has been derived from the study of meteorites and asteroid reflectance spectra which have both been vital to our understanding of asteroid compositions. The vast amount of...
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Spring 2020
The mining industry generates vast amounts of geological material and diamond drill core throughout the life-cycle of any exploration or mining project. This material needs to be examined, logged, and assayed where appropriate. Currently this is generally performed through visual observations by...
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Fall 2018
As a spectroscopic matrix, helium nanodroplets exhibit many advantages over frozen rare gas matrices or other seeded clusters. Helium nanodroplets are superfluid, and interact only very weakly with embedded dopants, meaning high-resolution spectra are possible. Further, dopants are rapidly cooled...
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Practical and Applied Reflectance Spectroscopy: Automated Drill Core Logging and Mineral Mapping
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This thesis investigates three ways that automated reflectance spectroscopy can be used for applied purposes: the automated logging of drill core into ore-bearing and barren zones, the analysis of minerals to provide evidence of hydrothermal alteration, and the creation of mineral maps to show...