I am a research scientist in the Engineering and Mining Experiment Station (EMES) at South Dakota Mines which serves as a multi-user core research facility for analytical instrumentation. Instrumentation available includes inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ion chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, x-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. The EMES is available to both users from South Dakota Mines and other academic and industry institutions. For more information please visit our website at www.sdsmt.edu/EMES.