Commercially available lab-based solutions include QEMSCAN and Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA) from FEI Company, Mineralogic from Zeiss, AZtecMineral from Oxford Instruments, the TIMA (Tescan integrated mineral analyzer) from TESCAN, AMICS from Bruker, and MaipSCAN from Rock Scientific.
The first oil & gas wellsite solution was launched jointly by Zeiss and CGG Veritas in 2011 called RoqSCAN.
The business of automated mineralogy is concerned with the commercialisation of the technology and software in terms of development and marketing of integrated solutions.
These include the following sectors: mining;[1] O&G;[2] coal;[3] environmental sciences;[4] forensic geosciences;[5] archaeology;[6]agribusiness; built environment and planetary geology.
[7] The first recorded use of the term automated mineralogy in technical journals can be traced back to seminal papers in the late eighties early nineties describing QEMSCAN technology and applications.