Institute of Geology participating in the development of new methods

Institute of Geology participating in the development of new methods
Together with the CEITEC VUT team (Brno University of Technology) and other partners, our colleague Tomáš Hrstka participated in the presentation “Towards geological applications utilizing Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy”. Being given at the CEITEC Workshop on Multi-scale Imaging, held on April 1 2025 in Brno, the presentation unveiled the potential of advanced analytical methods of laser spectroscopy (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy – LIBS). Specifically, an industrial application for the determination of the amounts of lithium and other critical elements in ores was demonstrated. The method benefits from a wider project developing innovative methods of preparation and analysis of mineralogical/petrological samples for the study of geological processes and environmental monitoring. This research, also supported by the Strategy AV21 – Dynamic planet Earth programme, provides a new look at processes of the origin of rocks and ore deposits and a potential optimization of their nature-friendly processing. The photo shows a sample of a lithium ore together with an LIBS-generated elemental map of the same sample, showing the distribution of lithium and other elements in the ore.

a link for the text CEITEC Workshop on Multi-scale Imaging: here