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Sample Number 02Z549A
Project Salcha River-Pogo

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Reference Number 70397
Reference Date 2002-11-27
Citation RDF 2003-2
Laboratory XRAL Laboratories
Description 54 rock samples were crushed so that at least 70 percent of the material passed through a -10 (2 mm) mesh screen. These samples were then pulverized in a chrome steel ring mill so that 85 percent of the sample passed through a -200 (75 micron) mesh screen. 54 rock samples were analyzed for gold using Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectroscopy following Fire Assay Fusion. All other trace element geochemical analyses were performed by Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectroscopy after HCl:HNO3 (3:1) acid digestion. This method of digestion is possibly incomplete for some elements and may result in lower analytical results for certain elements.
Sample Type rock

Reference Number 70401
Reference Date 2002-11-29
Citation RDF 2003-2
Laboratory XRAL Laboratories
Description 58 rock samples were crushed so that at least 70 percent of the material passed through a -10 (2 mm) mesh screen. These samples were then pulverized in a chrome steel ring mill so that 85 percent of the sample passed through a -200 (75 micron) mesh screen. 58 rock samples were analyzed for major and minor oxides using X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy following a lithium tetraborate fusion. 58 rock samples were analyzed for trace elements using X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy on a pressed powder pellet. Cerium was analyzed using Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectroscopy after lithium metaborate fusion.
Sample Type rock