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Saskatchewan Forges One of the Largest, Most Respected Diamond Labs in the World

Rack up an impressive list of clients and worldwide respect. Check. Achieve phenomenal growth. Check. Become ISO-certified. Check. Become the lab of choice for De Beers Canada. Check. Win a major industry award. Check.

You name it, they’ve done it.Winning the Exceptional Engineering/Geoscience Project Award is just its latest achievement in an impressive list for Saskatchewan Research Council’s (SRC) Geoanalytical Laboratories.

Though they still don’t know by whom, SRC was nominated for the award. “We stood extremely proud of the fact that somebody nominated us,” says Bernard Gartner,Manager of Geoanalytical Laboratories. “It took us by shock.We were blown away. It was one of those awards that we really appreciated getting because it made you feel you were on the right path.”

The honour comes from the Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of Saskatchewan and recognizes the services SRC provides to diamond exploration companies from around the world.

GC IsoLink system adds powerful isotope ratio capabilities to mainstream GC/MS Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced its Thermo Scientific GC IsoLink, which makes isotope ratio monitoring GC/MS (irm-GC/MS) as easy to perform as GC/MS. GC/MS users can now utilize the power of irm-GC/MS analysis to discover information about their samples that was previously inaccessible by any other technique.

Wireless and waterproof data logger The new TandD Corporation RTR-61 Wireless/Waterproof Data Logger is designed to read or record the temperature from a penetration-type sensor. A single push button data capture logs the time, date, temperature, operator ID and item ID.