New job posting: Assay Laboratory manager
This is another advantage of Lamaque. It has an established in-house assay lab.
Our in-house assay lab should not only reduce exporation costs (although some samples will likely still have to be sent externally for independent verification), but the rapid turn around of drill results should help tremendously in assessing and optimizing drill targets, especially with a large program like this (which we are soon to launch):
``The Company is also reviewing tenders for an upcoming 150,000 foot (45,700+ meter) underground drill program at Lamaque over a three-year period.``
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It is a good idea to have the in-house assay lab. It is also essential to any successful milling and concentrating operation. Getting the operation going now is outright smart since there is a real learning curve to come up. Having a little experience in this here are some general guidelines to go by:
Use double blind recording / testing to insure honesty.
Frequently run calibrated raw samples into the process as part of the normal Quality Assurance Program.
Move people around so that it is near impossible to ‘cook the books’.
Preserve important samples cuts as coded number samples stored off-site.
This is the twenty-first century and nobody should still be doing fire assay as a primary tool.
Use Atomic Absorptive Spectral Photometry (AA) as the primary testing tool.
Use two similar AA machines at the same time. I like Perkin-Elmer instruments. The idea being to look for additional elements with multiple lamps on similar machines. If one machine goes belly-up we do gold on the running machine and do not interrupt the process.
PC
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