Refined technique for susceptibility resolution into ferromagnetic and paramagnetic components based on susceptibility temperature-variation measurement

SUMMARY The measurement of the temperature variation of magnetic susceptibility can be used for the separation of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic susceptibility components. The method suggested by Hrouda (1994) assumes a hyperbolic dependence of paramagnetic, susceptibility and constant ferromagnetic susceptibility in the temperature interval used for the separation. Our new method works with a paramagnetic hyperbola again, but assumes that the ferromagnetic susceptibility temperature variation is represented by a linear relationship in the resolution interval, as indicated by the investigation of monomineralic ferromagnetic fractions.