MLA Scanning Electron Microscopes

The FEI MLA (an acronym for Mineral Liberation Analyzer) scanning electron microscope (SEM) is an automated mineral analysis system that can identify minerals in polished sections of drill core, particulate, or lump materials, and quantify a wide range of mineral characteristics, such as mineral abundance, grain size, and liberation.
Mineral texture and degree of liberation are fundamental properties of ore and drive its economic treatment, making the data gathered by the MLA SEM invaluable to geologists, mineralogists and metallurgists who engage in process optimization, mine feasibility studies, and ore characterization.