- Performs Automated Microscopic Characterisation of polished sections of metal ores
- Is based on a multispectral optical microscopy system composed of:
- a research-grade fully-motorized reflected-light microscope incorporating some auxiliary elements (modified halogen illuminator, large filter wheel with bandpass filters, high-precision motorized XY scanning stage, video cameras, etc)
- two proprietary software applications:
- amcoCapture, which controls all the elements of the microscope in order to acquire multispectral images of specular reflectance spanning the VNIR range.
- amcoAnalysis, which processes those images and performs the analyses that allow the characterization of the sample.
- Development stage:
- TRL 8 – System qualified through pilot tests
- CRL 7 – System ready to market