Aug 26

Iron ore drill core

Even a dense iron ore core can be scanned, in a very short time, to provide visual information of the core in 3D, and measure void volume, for example. This type of scan can cover 120 mm of length in 4 samples per hour at the quality shown here
drill core2

hematite

hematite slice

hematite core slice image

hematite cropped

Check these videos from this example on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdCZjDmz29c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxRnTzc3mrQ

Analysis performed in VGStudioMax 2.2