Magnetite EDS spectrum, 50 kV Rh anode x-ray beam, CSIRO 2015

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Measurement details

Description EDS spectrum of Magnetite
Reference Spectra from unpublished supplementary material for: Torpy A., Wilson N.C., MacRae C.M., Barnes S., and Verrall M. (2015), Characterising drill core mineralogy by micro-XRD mapping,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 2015-02-04
Material Magnetite [ FeIIFeIII2O4 ]
Analysis technique Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS)
Instrument Bruker M4 Tornado
Probe 50 kV Rh anode x-ray beam
Anode current 0.499 mA
Detector name Bruker XFLASH
Det. technology Silicon drift detector (SDD)
Real time 6.51305 s
Live time 1.3279 s
Dead time 79.6117 %
Channel count 4096
Energy range -954.595 … 39979.5 eV
Gain 9.99612 eV/channel
Intensity range 4.306×104 counts
Integral 969897 counts
Comment EDS spectrum from unpublished supplementary material.
Measurement tags Unpublished

Specimen details

Name KH-2
Owner CSIRO
Catalog ID S-15-002
Locality Kharaelakh intrusion, Noril'sk-Talnakh region, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberian Federal District, Russia
Type Rock fragment
Form Thin section
Other measurements CL

EDS

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

Nominal composition of Magnetite [ FeIIFeIII2O4 ].
Element Atoms At% Wt%
Fe 3 42.9 72.4
O 4 57.1 27.6
Total 7 100 100