Shared Facilities

Tx DRONE Laboratory

The Texas Digital Remote Observation and Education Laboratory (Tx DRONE) facility includes a large fleet of drones, or UAVs with traditional or thermal infrared cameras attached. Geospatial software to produce SfMs is included in the data processing capability.

• Contact Daniel Stockli and Timothy Goudge for details

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

Thin Section Lab

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

Faceting Lab

One of a few faceting labs in the U.S. is part of the facilities at UT. The faceting lab contains equipment for grinding and shaping gemstone-grade material.

Rock Saw

[Content coming soon]

Optical Microscopy

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