Winner of the R&D 100 Award 2006

Try the RockHound™ for rock and mineral identification. Raman spectroscopy is the method for rapid and non-destructive mineral identification. The RockHound is a portable, hand-held field analysis spectrometer which takes Raman spectroscopy beyond a laboratory setting. A library with approximately 500 samples is used to aid students, professors and researchers in the identification of unknown rocks, minerals and soils. The RockHound is the only portable Raman spectrometer dedicated to the geological sciences.