Minerals play an important role in the oil sands extraction efficiency. It is thus important to assess the major mineral abundance in oil sands ores. This paper presents the application of tunable quantum cascade lasers for mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy on oil sands minerals. The investigations and results show a new tool to determine oil sands mineral type and to determine potentially quartz and clay contents.

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EXPRESS：基于可调谐量子级联激光器的油砂矿物中红外反射光谱

矿物对油砂的提取效率起着重要作用。因此，评估油砂矿中的主要矿物丰度非常重要。本文介绍了可调谐量子级联激光器在油砂矿物中红外反射光谱中的应用。调查和结果显示了一种确定油砂矿物类型和确定潜在石英和粘土含量的新工具。