Analysis: Mineral Chemistry

Analysis: Mineral Chemistry

<p>Entrust your samples to a recognized and accredited laboratory, equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and a team able to process liquid or solid matrices, whether radiologically marked or not.</p>

    • Reliably analyze diverse samples (liquid, solid, organic, inorganic, radioactive).
    • Achieve stringent limits of quantification in loaded or radioactive matrices.
    • Obtain results that comply with client requirements and regulatory standards.
    • Access large processing capacity for high sample volumes.
    • Secure your analyses with an accredited and recognized laboratory.
    • Access a versatile laboratory capable of meeting your specific needs, regardless of matrix type.
    • Benefit from a wide range of inorganic parameters analyzed: metals, rare earths, alkali and alkaline-earth elements, lanthanides, actinides, anions, cations, impurities.
    • Obtain reliable results through methodologies adapted to even the most complex samples, including radioactive ones.
    • Gain confidence with a COFRAC-accredited laboratory recognized for its expertise within the Orano group and by external clients.
    • Ensure traceability and regulatory compliance of your analyses, backed by decades of proven know-how.
    • 40 years of experience in chemical and environmental analysis.
    • COFRAC accreditation since 1996 (N°1-5873 – LAB GTA 05, LAB GTA 35, program 156).
    • High analytical capacity: up to 200,000 parameters analyzed per year.
    • Comprehensive equipment fleet: ICP-AES, ICP-MS, atomic absorption, chromatography, UV-visible spectrometry, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy with EDX microprobe, potentiometry, specific discrete analyzers (solid carbon/sulfur).
    • Equipment suited to physical and chemical sample preparation: ovens, furnaces, crushers, ball and ring mills, sieve shakers, riffle splitters, microwaves, automated alkaline fusions, hot plates and blocks, pyrohydrolysis.
    • Wide variety of analyses: standardized leaching, metals, rare earths, alkali and alkaline-earth elements, speciation (Cr VI, Fe II, Fe III, As III, As V, Se IV, Se VI, etc.).
    • Characterization of crystalline structures of solids: whole rock, clay fraction, asbestos detection, crystalline structures, elemental mapping, imaging.
    • Processing of complex matrices: liquid/aqueous, solid, inorganic, organic, radioactive.