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Grade Control

Niton XL2 analyzing a seam on a mine face undergroundOre-grade assessment helps manage blasting, excavation, and hauling activities, optimizing the site blend provided to the concentrator, while preventing grade dilution or the erroneous transport of ore to the waste dump.  

Effective grade control requires accurate elemental composition data in large numbers of samples. Handheld Thermo Scientific Niton XRF analyzers provide several distinct benefits to geologists and mine program managers:  

  • Perform trend analysis by averaging readings in real-time on the instrument or quickly download readings to a PC for advanced data analysis
  • Convert the instrument into a bench top analyzer by simply placing the analyzer into the included test stand and operate via wireless connection to a PC
  • Realize high speed and sample throughput to ensure that the samples sent to a laboratory are representative of the local geochemical values.  

Geologists and program managers who require rapid laboratory-grade sample analysis need only prepare samples through grinding and sieving, and then test them on-site with their Thermo Scientific Niton analyzer. Lab-quality sample preparation yields lab-quality results with these now essential mining tools.

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