MINAL — a program for efficient work with chemical analyses of minerals

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The author has developed a computer program oriented towards ordinary work with large arrays of mineral chemical analyses, including the use of SEM images. The article describes briefly the main approaches and functionality of the program, which is now available to a wide range of users.

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D. V. Dolivo-Dobrovolsky

Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS

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Email: doliva@inbox.ru
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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2. Fig. 1. Appearance of the program with some working windows: main window with menu, button bar for basic operations and three-part table of chemical analyses (a), window for BSE images with points of analyses and selected characteristics of mineral compositions (б), window of custom coefficients editor (в).

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3. Fig. 2. Window for exporting data to third-party applications developed in the Microsoft Excel environment (or supporting input from spreadsheet files). The variant of settings for working via Windows clipboard is shown.

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4. Fig. 3. Plotting of mineral-specific diagrams. The upper window refers to the MINAL program, the lower window — to the interacting program TriQuick, in which the drawing and additional operations with diagrams are performed.

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