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

[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.

• Contact Mark Helper for details

Rock Saw

[Content coming soon]

Optical Microscopy

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