Pentlandite EDS spectrum, 15 keV e- beam, CSIRO 2015
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Measurement details
| Description | EDS spectrum of Pentlandite |
| Reference | Spectra from unpublished supplementary material for: Torpy A., Wilson N.C., MacRae C.M., Barnes S., and Verrall M. (2015), Characterising drill core mineralogy by micro-XRD mapping, AMAS XIII: the 13th Biennial Australian Microbeam Analysis Symposium: program and abstracts, Eds: Karsten Goemann, Leonid Danyushevsky and Jay Thompson, University of Tasmania, Hobart, February 2015. IBSN: 978-09580408-5-3. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2477868828/view |
| Date measured | 2015-01-30 |
| Material | Pentlandite [ (Fe, Ni)9S8 ] |
| Analysis technique | Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS) |
| Instrument | JEOL 8500F |
| Probe | 15 keV electron beam |
| Beam current | 40.12 nA |
| Detector name | 2× Bruker XFLASH |
| Real time | 404.733 s |
| Live time | 305.092 s |
| Dead time | 24.6189 % |
| Channel count | 3096 |
| Energy range | -475.251 … 14984 eV |
| Gain | 4.99491 eV/channel |
| Intensity range | 5.589×105 counts |
| Integral | 3.9296×107 counts |
| Comment | EDS spectrum from unpublished supplementary material. |
| Measurement tags | Unpublished |
Specimen details
Specimen image
Clustered EPMA phase map of the KH-2 specimen (owner: S. Barnes, CSIRO Mineral Resources), from the Kharelakh intrusion, Noril'sk, Russia
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Composition
| Element | Atoms | At% | Wt% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fe | 4.5 | 26.5 | 32.6 |
| Ni | 4.5 | 26.5 | 34.2 |
| S | 8 | 47.1 | 33.2 |
| Total | 17 | 100 | 100 |