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
Thin Section Lab
[Operational content coming soon] Info about Folk/McBride collection
- Contact Phil Orlandini for details
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.
- Contact Mark Helper for details
Optical Microscopy
[Content coming soon: Undergrad and graduate students optical microscopy]