During his time, mineral identification and classification was quite a messy thing. Only the most common minerals, like feldspar and quartz, and minerals of some economic value like ore minerals ...

Lawrence, MA – December 3, 2013 – EZ-ID software running on an oreXpress portable spectrometer is an ideal solution for fast, easy, and accurate mineral identification in the field.

Darwin used the remaining time to exercise mineral identification with the blowpipe. By heating a mineral with a flame you can observe the chemical reactions and modifications of the specimen to ...

"We didn't go in looking for new minerals, we just happened to find them," he said. That easy identification was possible because of manmade versions of them that matched the compositions.

Lawrence, MA – August 11, 2016 – Spectral Evolution’s oreXpress™ spectrometer with EZ-ID software can provide critical real-time mineral identification for garnet minerals such as ...