Ore Calculator Foundations app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 1406 ratings )
Utilities
Developer: MIGUEL BARRERA MAUREIRA
Free
Current version: 1.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 23 Feb 2014
App size: 2.71 Mb

A handy app for the geologists!

This is basically a calculator that allows you estimate the percentage of a metal in a rock, entering the proportion of different ore minerals in it.

Just select the metal and then the percentage of different minerals. After that you will see the compound % of the metal in the status bar. Keep adding minerals if you need to, and you will see the compound % changing accordingly.

This is the foundations version, so you can try the functionality and it helps you to decide to get the full version

Metals included:
gold, silver, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, iron, zinc, lead, nickel.

And more than 45 ore minerals!:

Chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, covellite, Chalmersita, cubanite, enargite, tennantite, tetrahedrite, stannite, brochantite, Atacamite, Chrysocolla, Azurite, chalcanthite, malachite, Cuprite, Antlerita, tenorite, Argentite (Acantite), pyrargygrite, Proustite, Querargirita (cerargirita), calaverita, Silvanita, Electrum, Wulfenite, molybdenite, Scheelite, wolframite, Sphalerite, cincita, Smithsonite, anglesite, Cerussite, Crocoite, galena, pyromorphite, goethite, limonite, siderite, hematite, magnetite, garnierite, pentlandite, Millerite, Niquelita.

iOS 6+