Analytical Services
Precision, and quality controlled analytical results.
- Major and trace analyses of condensate, gas and water
- Stable isotope analyses of fluids and minerals
- Petrology, petrography and x-ray diffraction
- Fluid-inclusion microthermometry
- Radiometric dating of fluids and rocks
- Physical rock property measurement
- Surface sampling of fluids and gases
Laboratories
Wairakei Analytical Laboratory: ISO 17025:2005 accredited geothermal and groundwater analyses, including a wide range of specialist and non-routine analyses. Sample types include steam condensate, groundwater, geothermal water and volcanic samples.
Minerals Laboratory: New Zealand's most sophisticated thin section and mineral extraction laboratory. XRD analysis for quantitative mineral analysis and identification.
National Isotope Centre: Isotope science expertise and associated commercial applications, including stable isotopes, radiocarbon analysis, tritium and water dating, and cosmogenic isotopes.