Shared Facilities
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Tx DRONE Laboratory
The Texas Digital Remote Observation and Education Laboratory (Tx DRONE) facility includes a large fleet of drones, or UAVs with traditional or thermal infrared cameras attached. Geospatial software to produce SfMs is included in the data processing capability.
- Contact Daniel Stockli and Timothy Goudge for details
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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
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Thin Section Lab
[Operational content coming soon] Info about Folk/McBride collection
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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.
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Rock Saw
[Content coming soon]
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Optical Microscopy
[Content coming soon: Undergrad and graduate students optical microscopy]