Microscope World recently had a client who wanted to view sand-size particles of ore under the microscope in order to determine the types of ore. The following images were captured using a metallurgical microscope at 200x magnification along with a high definition (HD) microscope camera.
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| Silver and quartz ore under a metallurgical microscope using darkfield microscopy. |
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| Gold ore under a metallurgical microscope using darkfield microscopy. |
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| Metal ore image under metallurgical microscope using darkfield. |
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| Quartz and silver under a metallurgical microscope using darkfield illumination. |
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| Silver under the metallurgical microscope with darkfield. |
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| Gold ore captured at 200x under a metallurgical microscope. |
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| Quartz under the metallurgical microscope. |
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| Metallurgical microscope image using darkfield of silver ore. |
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| Metal ore captured under metallurgical microscope. |
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| Metal ore captured under a metallurgical microscope using darkfield. |









