Fifty Years of Precious Metals Expertise, Platinum Assay Specialization & Platinum Refining Rhodium Extraction
Advanced Analytical/MRA Labs LLC offers the benefit of leading edge platinum, PGM and Gold Assays, Platinum refining and PGM recovery, which is the result of our fifty years of company experience. Advanced Analytical owns the research, databases and expertise of Metallurgical Research and Assay Labs (MRA Labs, one of the premier platinum assay and platinum refining resources in the U.S.).
As owners of Advanced Analytical, Kathleen and Gary Schmitt carry on the traditions of the company with a strong commitment to honesty, integrity and complete competence with leading edge assaying techniques especially with the Platinum Metal Group ores. At no time are we influenced or intimated by platinum metal market interests. Some individuals affected by market forces or other economic or political agendas would have mining companies believe that no platinum metals exist in commercial amounts in the United States and Canada. But, you should be aware of countless reports by the USGS from the 1900’s about the prevalence of PGM’s, particularly in the Western States.
Advanced Analytical implements it’s commitment to accuracy and competence by maintaining our instruments on a rigorous calibration schedule, conducting a rolling dense metal confirmation program and regularly conducting research to derive a strong corollary between the values in precious metals we report and the amount of recoverable dense Noble Metals. However, no warranties expressed or implied are made as to the recoverability of your Noble Metals without extensive extraction research.
Advanced Analytical Assay employs state of the art ICP’s and DCP’s which were designed specifically for detecting and quantifying precious metals accurately. With our Fifty years of company experience, the greatest time and attention is given each sample, using highly researched and refined techniques to ensure that 100% of the Platinum, Gold, Rhodium and other PGM’s in your ore is fully suspended and completely available for reading by our instruments.
Using only the top trained, highly coveted professionals from the world’s largest mining company, the Stillwater Mine and those highly trained by professionals at the Nevada Bureau of Mines. Advanced Analytical has assembled the most sought after, savvy professional platinum assayers and platinum refining experts anywhere.
Using the most advanced types of ICP (Indirect Coupled Plasma Spectrometer) and DCP (Direct Plasma Spectrometer) and using pivotal ore preparations and techniques, Advanced Analytical offers the finest ability to detect Platinum’s, PGM’s, standard Gold and complex gold forms. Our techniques are highly accurate and reliable assay methods and very similar as the in house methodologies for assay used by platinum refiners worldwide.
No other Assay Laboratory can provide such high resolution, integrity and honesty for fully and accurately assaying your platinum, rhodium, palladium and Gold ores, not to mention Ruthenium and Iridium. AA/MRA Labs also provides full, wet chemical analysis for rare earths and regularly provides full 78-element analysis. To ascertain the extent and nature of every element on the Periodic Table which may be present in your precious metals ore.
Extraction and Refining Consulting Services
Because of heavy client demand, in 1999 Advanced Analytical has expanded into the following areas:
- Platinum/PGM extraction and refining research projects. We offer a Phase I and
Phase II Extraction programs which expose your promising ore to the most leading
edge recovery techniques and successful pretreatments. It’s objective is to find
the most optimal concentration methods and machines and tests your ores at various
particle sizes down to micron size to discover optimal liberation of platinum and
the PGM’s. Click here for a full description for more detail Extraction Studies.
- Demasking of Black Sands, which makes the noble metals in many such ores easily recoverable. Call for details.
- Cinder type ore products sometimes respond well to our DFCP---Direct Fire Cinder process. This is an ore pretreatment, not necessarily a refinement. But it is highly successful at making noble metals easily firable when otherwise precious metals released is next to impossible in Cinder/Volcanic ores.
