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Mineralogical semi-quantitative analysis

1.      Semi-quantative, complete analysis of heavy concentrates and for made-up heavy concentrates.

  • Determination of minerals composing heavy concentrates.
  • Description of gold, silver, cinnabar, platinum (by counting or gram)

2.      Semi-quantitative, brief analysis of heavy concentrates:

  • Determination of only beneficial, secondary and accessory minerals.
  • Description of gold, silver, cinnabar, platinum. (by counting or gram)

3.      Brief analysis of detailed determination for beneficial and accessory minerals: 

  • Description of shape, grain size, smoothness, shimmer, color, hardness, division, alteration and paragenesis of minerals (by counting or mg/gram)

4.      Screen sieving analysis:

  • Determination of minerals composition by their grain size (by counting and mg/gram)

5.      Mono-mineral separation

  • All kinds of minerals (by counting or gram) using an analytical balance LIBROR AEX-120B

6.      Separation of minerals of 4th group (gold, silver, cinnabar and platinum)

7.      Blowing and weighing of gold:

  • Gold bearing samples (by counting or mg)
  • control weighing of gold (using AEM-5200, with accuracy of 0.2±0.001 mg)

8.      Mineralogical quantitative analysis:

  • Techniques of weighing and counting. Minerals of groups of sand, quartz, feldspar, mica and others (by counting or gram)

9.      Mineralogical detailed analysis for 1-2 or 6-10 minerals:

  • Complete description of certain minerals and determination of their content by customer`s order (by counting or gram)

In case, when it becomes difficult to determine minerals due to physical and mechanical reaction and alteration of outer nature, following techniques are used additionally:

  • Use of reference minerals
  • Microchemical tests using chemical reagents
  • Crystallo-optical methods using polarized transmitted light
  • Luminescence light method
  • X-ray diffraction method
  • Optic emission spectral analysis

 

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