FACILITIES

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE
CITL CL8200 Mk.3a. Microscope-mounted system

CRUSHING FACILITIES & SAMPLE PREPARATION LABORATORY

FLUID INCLUSION LABORATORY

In 2010 a new Fluid Inclusions Laboratory was installed. The laboratory is equipped with a Linkam MDSG600 heating/freezing stage with a temperature range of -196°C to 600 °C, capable of heating/cooling rates of 0.01 to 150°C/min, and hold a stability of 0.001°C. The stage is mounted on an Olympus BX51 petrographic microscope, which is fitted with an Olympus SC30 camera, operating on Olympus Stream Essentials software. The microscope is fitted with a regular 5 x objective, and long-working-distance 10x, 20x, and 50x objectives; it is also fitted with a 1.6x magnification changer allowing for up to 80x magnification. It has been used by Honours and Postgraduate students to study fluid inclusions in veins sampled from Witwatersrand gold operations and fluid inclusions in mineralised (Li-Be-Sn-Ta-Nb) pegmatites and uraniferous sheeted leucogranites from the Damara Belt, Namibia.

FOSSIL PREPARATION LABORATORY

GIS TEACHING LABORATORY

30 PC's shared with the School of Geography, on the top floor of the BPI building.

GEOPHYSICS COMPUTER LABORATORY

12 PC's on the top floor of the Geosciences building, for use by Geophysics Honours students only.

UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTER LABORATORY

20 PC's in the basement of the Geosciences building, for use by second year and above Geology students.

Hydrogeology Laboratory

The recently built hydrogeology houses an array of new equipment dedicated to the analysis groundwater. PLease contact Tamiru Abiye for more information

The laboratory equipment in the Hydrogeology Lab includes pH meters,Eh meters, EC meters, Colorimetric spectrophotometer, Bacteriological incubator

TLC meter, DO meter, interface meter, and a River current meter.