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Standard operating procedure for preparation of grain mounts for SHRIMP analysis: Mineral Separation Laboratory

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents the process and methodology used by the Geoscience Australia (GA) Mineral Separation Laboratory to produce high quality epoxy resin grain mounts for analysis on a Sensitive High Resolution Ion Micro Probe (SHRIMP). All aspects of producing epoxy resin mounts for isotopic analysis are detailed (including the materials required, steps for sample preparation through to mount production, preparation for imaging of epoxy mounts, and mount cleaning procedures for gold coating and subsequent analysis), assuming that heavy mineral concentrates have previously been prepared via conventional density and magnetic separation techniques (e.g. Chisholm et al., 2014).

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Title Standard operating procedure for preparation of grain mounts for SHRIMP analysis: Mineral Separation Laboratory
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9ff34783-3f1f-4374-8cf5-abd443ba7a65
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Standard operating procedure for preparation of grain mounts for SHRIMP analysis: Mineral Separation Laboratory". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/standard-operating-procedure-for-preparation-of-grain-mounts-for-shrimp-analysis-mineral-separa