Typical analysis for rocks and sediments was a 1.1 oz (31 g) gold-platinum-palladium fire assay, followed by a 50 element aqua-regia digestion, and a combination of induced coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) and ultra trace induced coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES)analysis. These analyses were followed by pressed pellet X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) analysis for barite, tin, and tungsten. Samples with assay results exceeding element-specific detection limits for the standard analysis were reanalyzed by a variety of element-specific procedures.
