The Environmental Geology Division has an onsite lab at the N. West Street Facility. Sample washing, drying, sorting, and analysis is done for various Office of Geology and MDEQ projects.
Tools associated with the lab and its sample services are as follows:
Rock Saw (2) operational
10-150X digital microscope/camera/camcorder (2)
Core sample coring drill
Microscopes/binocular (2)
Petrographic microscope
Fluorescence box
Digital scales
Bunsen burners
Lab glass
Drying lights
Sample wash station
Centrifuge
Heat plate for melting point tests
Rotap and sieves
*Lab only available for in house research and core study by outside researchers