Our Solutions

Our technology combines three key components

Tool

ScopeIR makes proprietary software and hardware modifications to the industry-leading ARCoptix FT-NIR Rocket spectrometer, enabling it to collect, process, interpret, and quantify mineral percentage and chemical composition with a truly portable device. The ARCoptix FT-NIR Rocket is a fibered spectrometer that allows next generation results to be gathered in real time in the field or laboratory. It is a high performance system that combines high resolution and excellent sensitivity.

ScopeIRʼs FT-NIR offers a spectral range of 900 to 2500 nm, with its small detector window providing superior signal-to-noise performance. It offers excellent stability in both intensity and wavelength scales by virtue of a permanently aligned interferometer and solid-state reference laser. Outstanding stability in both wavelength and intensity scales makes it an ideal tool for highly reproducible chemometric analysis.

Quantitative Analysis

ScopeIR utilises extensive proprietary mineral and chemical datasets, collected by the University of Tasmania Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences (CODES) over decades. The global nature of the dataset allows more mineral and chemical combinations to be identified and quantified contextually, including but not limited to alunite, apatite, calcite, chlorite, epidote, magnetite, white mica, titanite, pyrite, quartz, rutile, titanite, tourmaline, zircon, and zunyitr.

ScopeIR is uniquely positioned to deliver fully quantitative, calibrated FT-NIR analysis by combining its proprietary database with state-of-the-art machine learning innovation in IR spectral data analysis from the University of Tasmaniaʼs Central Science Laboratory (CSL).

ScopeIR competitive edge

The ScopeIR solution is significantly superior to existing comparable tools in use by the mining industry.

We utilise FT-NIR data rather than dispersive techniques, resulting in superior output in terms of both signal-to-noise ratio and spectral resolution.

We deliver quantitative mineralogy, geochemistry and associated uncertainties in a series of easy-to-read tables, in real time, in the field, enabling expedited exploration workflows at a fraction of the cost and time of laboratory analyses.

Our results, when compared with existing SWIR analysis providers, are akin to observing the universe through a high-powered telescope, versus a basic pair of binoculars.

Our Supporters

Testimonial

“For over 30 years, SWIR spectroscopy has been widely used by geologists for mineral identification. Despite changes in the technology, little has changed in the quality of information obtained. We are long overdue for revolutionary change, and at last the revolution has come.

The new data-gathering and interpretation technology employed by ScopeIR can now provide better portable instruments, higher resolution, and vastly improved information about geological materials, encompassing detailed mineral speciation and quantitative chemistry.

Instead of relying on crude approximations of what is present in outcrop, drill core, analytical pulps, or ore processing streams, it is now possible to quickly obtain precise and detailed information that will revolutionize mineral exploration, mineral processing, ore recovery, and research on ore-forming processes. Welcome to the revolution!”
Noel WhiteFormer BHP Chief Geologist

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