Patent ID: 8917092

Claim:
A method for mineral analysis, the method comprising: transmitting radio-frequency (RF) pulses with a probe to excite Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) and/or Local Field Magnetic Resonance (LFMR) signals from an amount of a first desired substance of a sample, the first desired substance having nuclei responsive to a Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) and/or Local Field Magnetic Resonance (LFMR) field phenomenon; detecting the excited NQR and LFMR signals with a receiver unit; delivering the detected NQR and/or LFMR signals from the receiver unit to a processor; and using the processor to measure an intensity of the NQR and LFMR signals and to make a determination of a concentration of the desired first substance in the sample based on the measured intensity of the NQR and LFMR signals.