Shared Facilities

Mineral Separation

The Mineral Separation Facility includes shatterboxes for sample pulverization, a crusher, a disc mill pulverizer, a Rogers table, a Wilfly table, a mica table, sieves, heavy liquids and Franz magnetic separators for mineral separation.

• Contact Daniel Stockli for details

Recording Studio

The Recording Studio is a sound-dampened room outfitted with cameras, a green screen, a learning wall, microphones, and editing software that streamlines and simplifies the process of recording classes, presentations, or other multimedia.

• Contact Ty Lehman for details

Faceting Lab

One of a few faceting labs in the U.S., it contains equipment for grinding and shaping gemstone-grade material.

• Contact Kenneth Befus for details.

Rock Saw

The Rock Saw Lab supports research and teaching by providing equipment to cut and trim rock, mineral, and core samples for petrographic, geochemical, and structural analyses. The facility includes slab saws and trim saws capable of processing a wide range of lithologies, from sedimentary and metamorphic rocks to harder igneous samples, enabling precise sample preparation prior to thin sectioning, geochronology, and microanalytical work.

• Contact Elizabeth Catlos for details.

Optical Microscopy

[Content coming soon: Undergrad and graduate students optical microscopy]

Thin Section Lab

[Operational content coming soon] Info about Folk/McBride collection