Sulfur Methods
Accurate sulfur speciation can be crucial to early identification of recovery and environmental issues on many projects. Variations on the most common speciation methods can be implemented to suit your project’s specific mineralogy; please contact client services in your region for more information.
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Sulfur and Carbon Packages
These elements are often determined together, so ALS provides several economic packages for convenience.
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Carbon Methods
Carbon has important metallurgical and environmental implications for many types of mineral deposits. Carbonates may consume acid, impacting leach process design and mine waste remediation, while preg robbing by organic carbon can interfere with the cyanidation of gold and silver ores.
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Various Elements in Concentrates
All control assays are overseen by experienced certified assayers and analyzed in duplicate at a minimum to assure quality. Umpire assays are also available – please enquire.
Precious metals in concentrates and bullion are found in the Precious Metals section.
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High-Grade Multi-Element Analysis
This is a four acid multi-element procedure specifically designed for major, minor and trace elements in high-grade samples and concentrates. Extra care is taken with senior staff reviewing the results in detail. Aqua regia/ICP-MS and oxidizing fusion/XRF options are also available.
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Industrial Minerals
Industrial minerals commonly have highly refractory components requiring aggressive digestions. These methods are designed to completely dissolve the analytical sub-sample, leaving no inhomogenous residual material behind.
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Acid-Base Accounting
Acid-base accounting (ABA), also called static testing, calculates a net neutralization potential (NNP) representing the ability of a body of rock to produce acid rock drainage or to consume free acid and neutralize it. The packages listed are those most commonly used. Ask our client services team for other options. Minimum sample size for all ABA packages is 100g.
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Net Acid Generation
NAG provides a quantitative estimation of the acid that can be generated by mine waste. Hydrogen peroxide is used to rapidly oxidize sulfides. NAG is reported in kg H2SO4/tonne at pH 4.5 and pH 7.0. 2.5g sample
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Humidity Cells & Metal Leaching
Tests to quantify metal leaching from mine waste under meteoric conditions can range from simple shake flask analysis to long term column leaches. Many analytical options are possible on the leaches; prices will vary based on analytical package requested.
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ALS Mineralogy
ALS Mineralogy has a market leading position in the range and capabilities of our automated mineralogy equipment, which includes the Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA), QEMSCAN®, X-ray Diffraction, ParticleSCAN and HyLogger™.
These technologies can be utilized to add value to a wide range of commodities including precious and base metals, rare earth elements, mineral sands, coal, iron ore, graphite and phosphate deposits. The technology is also applicable to the management of smelters and undertaking of environmental assessments.
Access to state-of-the-art technology and a highly trained technical team ensures your requirements are understood and you are provided with relevant, representative and high-quality quantitative data.
Contact us to determine methods and pricing specific to your project.
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Mineralogical data available from our range of technologies includes:
- Mineral species, composition and abundance
- Elemental deportment
- Mineral grain and particle size distributions
- Mineral liberation (including association and locking)
- Mineral surface exposure
- Mineral X-ray spectra summary
- Mineral phase identification
- High resolution photomicrographs
- Mineral textural information
- Process mineralogy / plant survey
- Trace mineral characterization
- QEMSCAN backscatter images
- QEMSCAN bitmap particle & core generated images
- Geometallurgical analysis