Targeted exploration

Method selection can be key to achieving exploration success. Sample type, target commodity, and pathfinder elements should all be considered when selecting the most appropriate method for your project. Aqua regia is an excellent exploration tool for various deposit types that involve gold, silver and base metals hosted in sulfide and carbonate minerals.

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When analytical results for one or only a few elements with low detection limits are required. More elements are available on request.

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These methods are economical tools for first pass exploration geochemistry. Data reported from an aqua regia digestion should be considered as representing only the leachable portion of the particular analyte.

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Four acid digestions are able to dissolve most minerals, but although the term “near-total” is used, not all elements are quantitatively extracted in some sample matrices.

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The lithium borate fusion & ICP-MS finish allows analysis of the most resistive elements at trace levels. Additional elements are available on request.

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Elemental analysis of the halide minerals containing chlorine and fluorine generally require fusions that will retain the elements in solution, as well as specific instrumentation for analysis.

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Aqua regia quantitatively dissolves Hg and uses a temperature of digestion low enough to avoid fuming off this volatile element.

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LOI measures the content of a sample lost as gases when subjected to high temperatures, often including water and CO2. Many more temperatures and ignition times are available, please enquire.

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These methods provide crucial information for mineral processing and environmental assessment studies.

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Four acid digestion quantitatively dissolves nearly all minerals in the majority of geological materials. However, barite, rare earth oxides, columbite-tantalite, and titanium, tin and tungsten minerals may not be fully digested. Despite the potentially incomplete digestion of REEs, the leachable portion of these elements may hold important exploration vectoring information and can be chosen as an add-on.

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The crucial lithogeochemical elements - silicon, titanium and zirconium - may be added to any ALS four acid method for a more complete element suite.

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When analytical results for one or only a few elements with low detection limits are required. More elements are available on request.

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These packages can be used as an economical alternative to analyzing low grade ore or samples with known mineralization. Data reported from an aqua regia digestion should be considered as representing only the leachable portion of the particular analyte.

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These packages can be used as an economical alternative to analyzing low grade ore or samples with known mineralization. Four acid digestions are able to dissolve most minerals, but not all elements are quantitatively extracted in some samples.

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This fast, low-cost analysis of Pb isotope ratios in pulps allows fingerprinting of different lithologies and hydrothermal fluid flow pathways, providing a new vector to ore deposits.

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Many important parameters of mineralizing fluids may be determined from stable isotope ratios. The isotopic alteration halo may extend beyond visible mineralogy changes, creating a larger deposit footprint for easier exploration vectoring.

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These methods provide insight into provenance and character of hydrothermal fluids and rock genesis, helping unravel geological history for a more sophisticated understanding of your ore body.

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These methods may be used to date the ages of specific minerals, hydrothermal alteration events, and emplacement of volcanic-plutonic units. Age constraints on important events can help refine the deposit model and identify alteration that did not contribute to mineralization.

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