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AMICS automated mineralogy

See every grain.
Share every result.

AMICS turns a scanning electron microscope into an automated mineralogy lab. GeoMineral AI Insights brings its results, software and support together for your team and the people who rely on your data.

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X-ray throughput
Up to 1,000 kcps per channel
Data collection
Every standard mapping mode
Automated mineralogy
4th generation
Backscattered electron (BSE) image of a basalt thin section AMICS mineral map of the same basalt field, each mineral in its own color
Basalt, 29 x 17 mm field at 16.5 µm. Drag to compare.

How AMICS works

From electrons to decisions

One unified system: Hitachi SEM, Bruker EDS and AMICS software, tuned for each installation.

  1. AMICS running beside a Hitachi SEM in the lab 01

    Collect

    Automate imaging and X-ray collection across large areas, particles or rare phases, with the mapping mode that fits each sample.

  2. Classified mineral map 02

    Classify

    Match every spectrum against your reference library to identify minerals and the area each one covers.

    • Magnetite 46.5%
    • Hematite 37.6%
    • Goethite 15.2%
    • Other 0.7%
    Iron ore, modal mineralogy (wt%)
    03

    Quantify

    Turn maps into modal mineralogy, assay, liberation, grain size and custom calculations that drive decisions.

Classification

Tell close phases apart

AMICS compares each measured spectrum with your references across the full energy range, and the spectrum tree lets you build multi-step classification without writing code.

  • Full-spectrum best-match classification
  • Spectrum tree: rules, priorities and touch-up steps
  • Particles and grains, ready for texture and liberation
Particles as a BSE image on the left and as an AMICS classified map on the right
Same particles: BSE image (left) and AMICS classification (right).
From BSE image to classified false color, then to individual particles and grains

GeoMineral AI Insights

One platform for your AMICS lab

  • Share results instantly

    Publish AMICS results to stakeholders in a branded portal, without hours of report building.

  • Discover new insights

    Plot SEM data on maps and in the subsurface, connect it through a data API, and explore it with AI.

  • Manage labs and fleets

    One source of truth for classification, shared report templates and synchronized recipes across sites.

Applications

From the mine to the market

Wherever minerals and materials are made, moved or recovered.

Illustration of the mineral value chain: exploration, mining, processing, energy, transport and manufacturing

Tiers

Grow at your own pace

Each tier includes everything in the tiers before it.

  1. 1

    Support portal

    Free for every AMICS user

    Manuals, training, support and feature requests, license management.

  2. 2

    Data platform

    Branded portal, dashboards, project management, global mineral library, AI mineral suggestion, viewer distribution, unlimited phone and software support.

  3. 3

    System of record

    Document management, classification method management, an annual on-site visit, and a dedicated data namespace and Python environment.

  4. 4

    AI classification

    Trained, human-reviewed mineral classification in the cloud, or on your own GPU hardware at the SEM.

Scientist reviewing AMICS mineral maps at a Hitachi scanning electron microscope

Built with labs

Developed with the people who use it

AMICS is developed by Hitachi High-Tech and Bruker in partnership with customers, with direct input into what comes next. Support comes from the team that builds it.

Hitachi SU3900SE scanning electron microscope

Runs on Hitachi SEMs from the FlexSEM 1000 II to the SU3900SE.

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