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Services

The Hub can offer a mixture of external commercial business contracts, entrepreneurial endeavours, RD&I projects, and educational support and assistance through its unique equipment offering.

The Exchange Building Penryn Campus

Analytical

The main priority of the Hub is to acquire and manage strategic pieces of equipment that will advance the mineral processing capability of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly critical minerals sector. The majority of equipment is now housed at CSM, with key pieces also held at Paterson and Cooke and Bluecap Resources.
  • Bruker D6 Phaser XRD
  • P-XRF Niton XL5
  • Confocal Raman Microscope
  • Bruker LUMOS II FT-IR Microscope
  • Bruker Tornado Plus Micro-XRF
  • Multiwave 7000 Microwave Digester
  • Auto-titrator, multiparameter meter, centrifuge, fusion machine
  • Katanax X-600 Fusion Machine
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Bruker D6

Mineral Processing

Housing state-of-the-art equipment within the essential health and safety infrastructure of the CSM and core partners’ premises, the Hub offers long and short-term opportunities for shared prosperity and economic growth in a rapidly growing market.

  • Facility for safe handling of critical minerals, including rare earth elements
  • Automated mineral sorting (NORM lab)
  • Auto Flotation cell, Outotec GTK (Metso)
  • Magnetic separation
  • Hydrometallurgical reaction vessels,
  • Hydrocyclone
  • Rheometer
  • Ancillary equipment and laboratory support equipment
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Chalcopyrite

Training

The hub can also provide expert CPD offerings to businesses and entrepreneurs including manufacturers, consultancies, and producers, on topics such as ‘Mineral Processing Theory for Lab Technicians’. This will help local unqualified technicians up-skill, receive recognition for their learning and benefit their companies.

  • Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for the mineral processing and extractive industries.
  • Specific equipment training packages offered for hub equipment items.
  • Technical consulting
  • Feasibility studies
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Training