HR: 0800h
AN: NS31B-0376    [Abstracts]
TI: Role of Portable XRF Technology in the Recovery of Time Sensitive Geochemical Data from Core and Cuttings Materials
AU: * Lundin, R J
EM: wondjina@sonic.net
AF: Wondjina Research Institute, 18090 Lime Rock Rd., Sonora, CA 95370, United States
AB: With world-wide increases in metal prices and the accompanying "boom" in mineral exploration activity, there has been an almost "frantic" search for verifiable geochemical data from past exploration and mining activities. Of particular importance is the acquisition and verification of assay and soil geochemical data that was gathered in the past. Much of this data is found in reports, geological\assay logs and assay sheets and has to be verified by either resampling or reassaying core, cuttings, rejects and pulp materials. A reliable, cost and time effective method for recovering this data is the use of Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) equipment. Several case studies of the use of this equipment to recover time-sensitive data from core and cuttings materials will be presented.
DE: 0994 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1051 Sedimentary geochemistry
DE: 1065 Major and trace element geochemistry
DE: 1094 Instruments and techniques
SC: Near-Surface Geophysics [NS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting