Continuous mapping of drill cores in the sub-mm range with µ Energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF), laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and hyperspectral imaging (HSI) can provide chemical, mineralogical and textural information in such a detail, that systematic larger scale textural changes and mineral chemical repetitions can be recognized bringing new aspects into debate. We investigated three magnetite horizons from drill core BH7772, Marula Mine, Eastern Lobe crossing the Upper Zone of the layered Bushveld Igneous Complex. The three methods applied provide information at different pixel size 20/40µm for EDXRF, 75µm for LIBS, and for HSI 150µm, 400µm, and 400µm for VNIR; SWIR and LWIR were recorded. Whilst µEDXRF and LIBS provide a grid of identical pixel sizes based on step by step or on the fly data acquisition, HSI uses a linear detector generating optically distorted pixels. Therefore co-registration becomes problematic for small grains and in peripheral zones. Additionally LWIR pixels show blur effects since information of a shown 400µm pixel integrates approx. 1mm² area, adding spectral features of neighbor phases. We used a first supervised classification of phases for both µEDXRF and LIBS by ENVI software and spectral angle mapper algorithm. Selected phases were used as masks to obtain LWIR spectral changes due to mineral orientation. Larger monomineralic areas provide good grain size information, whilst small areas are influenced by other phases. Beside this problem, grain sizes can be obtained without using thin sections.