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Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) forms when sulfide-bearing materials are exposed to oxidizing conditions. Potential sulfide-bearing materials include waste rock overburden, processed ore (tailings) as well as exposed rock from either an open pit or underground mine. Sulfide minerals such as pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite in mine waste material can react with water and oxygen to produce sulfuric acid, which may in turn leach metals from the same material and introduce them into the environment at potentially high concentrations.  Read More

Raj Naran, Managing Director & CEO presents the 2019 Full Year results of ALS Limited. Read More

Take a look at what our sampling intelligence app ALS Compass can provide for you.  Read More

Over the past few years, the hot topic at many maintenance and reliability conferences has been the use of IoT also known as ‘the Internet of Things’. When thinking of equipment, we often draw comparisons of equipment to the human body. In the broadest sense, IoT is the nervous system of equipment. Our bodies can sense of touch, movement, balance, smell, taste, sight, pressure, temperature, and auditory vibrations. The information is received by various nerves and transmitted to our brains for processing. How we respond to this data is based on the judgement of how we perceive the information. Read More

It’s a win-win for ALS and one of our clients and proves the value of oil analysis. ALS was sent an excerpt in an Annual Report from one of our PLP’s (Private Label Programs) we do. The excerpt was about how the implementation of proactive maintenance practices (including oil analysis) as part of a reliability centered lubrication program, was used to maximize uptime and cost avoidance for one of their clients. The end user is a family owned construction company located in the state of Washington. Read More