Whether the samples are mineralized or not, no one, even you are expert, can determine until you have the chemical assay result. Therefore, a high quality sample preparation process is needed for precise chemical assay results.
A core shack was built for storing 25,000m+ core and soil sample.
For soil samples or outcrop samples, a bag of samples store in a drying room for days. After samples drying out, they send to crusher to reduce the size of samples. The crushed samples sort evenly. Finally, samples are reduced its size by milling for chemical assay or investor needs.
For core sampling, the process is about the same. The only difference is core samples have to be slice in 2 pieces by the core cutting machine at the beginning. Then half of the samples send to the drying room and repeat the process as soil preparation.
Sample Preparation