Threephasic fluid inclusions (H2O L, H2O V e NaCl)
(Aar Massif, near an occurrence of evaporites, Valais, Suisse)
(source: Roedder, 1984)

The Fluid Inclusions Laboratory is part of the Geosciences Institute and its activities began in the middle of the eighties, when two Chaixmeca microthermometric stages were bought by Prof. Marcel Auguste Dardenne, who, recently, has acquired an Olympus BX-50 microscope with a video system.

By the end of the eighties till the beginning of the nineties, Prof. Gaston Giuliani (ORSTOM) collaborated with the laboratory, helping to consolidate this field of study at the Geosciences Institute. During the nineties, researchers, granted with CNPq scholarships, worked on the laboratory, with special reference to Paulo de Tarso Ferro de Oliveira Fortes, Luís Henrique Ronchi, Carlos Eduardo Silva Coelho and Flávio Henrique Freitas-Silva.

By the end of the nineties, Prof. Paulo de Tarso Ferro de Oliveira Fortes became the head of the laboratory. Actually Prof. Marcia Abrahão Moura is the head of the Fluid Inclusions Lab.

Research projects that have been developed at the Geosciences Institute, most of them dealing with metallogenesis, with the participation of undergraduate students (Scientific Initiation) and postgraduate students (Master of Science and Philosophy Doctor), have been using the laboratory facilities, with results published in national and international magazines.