Analysis: Mineral chemistry
A complete laboratory, state of the art equipment, an efficient and competent team to perform all your analyses
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The laboratory adapts to customer needs to be able to receive and analyze different types of samples in liquid or solid matrices, including those marked radiologically. This implies setting up methodologies for the preparation and processing of particular samples, thus making it possible to respond to each request.
Achieving the quantification limits requested by customers in loaded or radioactive matrices are difficulties that the laboratory must be able to meet.
With its diversified equipment, the laboratory carries out analyses of inorganic parameters. To do this, it has the following means at its disposal: ICP-AES, ICP-MS, atomic absorption, chromatography, UV-visible spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, electron scanning microscopy coupled to an EDX microprobe, potentiometry, discrete analyzers, specific analyzers type Carbon/Sulphur on solids,...
Most of the equipment is equipped with sample changers for semi-automatic analysis of large quantities of samples.
For the physical preparation of solid samples, the materials available are: ovens, furnaces, crushers, ball and ring mills, screening machines, riffle dividers, etc.
For the chemical preparation of samples, the equipment that can be used are: microwaves, automated alkaline melting systems, heating plates and blocks, pyrohydrolysis, etc.
We carry out standardised leaching tests and all the analyses required by the authorities for the determination of both physico-chemical and radioactive elements.
- Analysis of liquid or solid or organic matrices
- Response to specific customer needs
- Complete equipment fleet
- High analytical volume capacity
- Laboratory with 40 years of experience in analysis and COFRAC accreditation on LAB GTA 05, LAB GTA 35 and program 156
The CIME laboratory has been accredited by COFRAC on chemical, physico-chemical and radioactivity measurements in environmental samples (detailed scope available on the website www.cofrac.fr N°1-5873) since 1996 and is recognized in the Orano group for its expertise.
The laboratory has also been characterizing aqueous, organic and solid waste for many years.
The laboratory is able to analyse up to 200,000 parameters per year for the needs of the Orano group and external customers.
Example of inorganic parameters analyzed:
- Metals
- Rare Earths
- Alkaline, alkaline earth
- Lanthanides / Actinides
- Anions
- Cations
- Impurities
- Specification: Cr VI, Fe II, Fe III, As III, As III, As V, Se IV, Se VI, ...
- Characterization of crystalline structures of solid samples:
- Total rock
- Clay fraction
- Asbestos detection
- Elementary mapping
- Imaging
