Standard operating procedure for preparation of grain mounts for SHRIMP analysis: Mineral Separation Laboratory

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents the process and methodology used by the Geoscience Australia (GA) Mineral Separation Laboratory to produce high quality epoxy resin grain mounts for analysis on a Sensitive High Resolution Ion Micro Probe (SHRIMP). All aspects of producing epoxy resin mounts for isotopic analysis are detailed (including the materials required, steps for sample preparation through to mount production, preparation for imaging of epoxy mounts, and mount cleaning procedures for gold coating and subsequent analysis), assuming that heavy mineral concentrates have previously been prepared via conventional density and magnetic separation techniques (e.g. Chisholm et al., 2014).

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Date (Creation)
2016-07-22T14:50:00
Date (Publication)
2016-09-08T00:00:00
Date (Revision)
2017-11-09T05:18:05
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/101221

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2016.019

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

DiBugnara, D.L.
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Record

Issue identification

2016/19

Purpose

This document is to formalise a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the process and methodology used by the Geoscience Australia (GA) Mineral Separation Laboratory to produce high quality epoxy resin grain mounts for analysis on a Sensitive High Resolution Ion Micro Probe (SHRIMP). This document was originally developed for 'internal' use as a laboratory guide, but has since been updated and modified for external publication, in response to significant interest from the international SHRIMP community in the detail of the mount preparation procedures used by GA.

The aim of this document is to detail procedures, equipment and consumables in order to make the GA methodology transparent, in the hope that other laboratories similarly tasked will find it useful, and to encourage those laboratories to publish their own versions of a similar document. Ideally, inter-laboratory exchange of information and ideas will foster innovation and overall process improvement as the best ideas and methods are combined.

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

DiBugnara, D.L.

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

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Offline access
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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OnLine resource

Download the Record (docx)

Download the Record (docx)

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  • docx

OnLine resource

Download the Record (pdf)

Download the Record (pdf)

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  • pdf

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Not applicable

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Dataset

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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Unclassified

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urn:uuid/1ba289bd-e27b-42ac-9564-6a01b8caaf86

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GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
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UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

DiBugnara, D.L.

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA Record

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/101221

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1ba289bd-e27b-42ac-9564-6a01b8caaf86

Date info (Creation)
2025-11-14T05:18:16.365Z
Date info (Creation)
2016-07-22T14:31:43
Date info (Revision)
2025-11-14T05:19:27.268Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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