Comparison between nickel-sulfur fire assay te co-precipitation and isotope dilution with high-pressure asher acid digestion for the determination of platinum-group elements, rhenium and gold

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-291

  Savard, Dany ^a   Barnes, Sarah Jane ^a   Meisel, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

High pressure asher; ICP MS; Isotope dilution analysis; Nickel sulfur fire assay; Platinum group elements

Indexed keywords

ACID DIGESTION; FIRE ASSAY; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; HIGH-PRESSURE ASHER; HOMOGENEOUS SAMPLES; ICP-MS; ISOTOPE DILUTION ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE DILUTIONS; LOW LEVEL; LOWER DETECTION LIMIT; NUGGET-EFFECT; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS; REFERENCE MATERIAL;

DILUTION; FIRES; GOLD DEPOSITS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; IRIDIUM; MASS SPECTROMETERS; NICKEL; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; OSMIUM; PLATINUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIOISOTOPES; RHENIUM; RHODIUM; SULFUR;

SULFUR DETERMINATION;

EID: 78649679758     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: 1751908X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2010.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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