Advanced Analytical/MRA Labs, LLC & Our Rates
Precious and Other Metal Analysis/Assaying

Wet Chemical ICP/DCP. All work performed "cash in advance."
  • 8 Element Noble Metals Assay; Package price; $385.00/sample

  • Single Element Precious Metal Assay $120/sample; each additional element $85/sample

  • Expediting Fee: Five Day Turn $185.00/sample

  • Rare Earths $95.00 per element; Package of All 16 RE's $1520.00/sample

  • Full Geo Mineral Analysis/non-metallic $650.00/sample

  • 78 Element; Full element Analysis $4,280.00/sample

  • Test Demasking/Black Sands, includes 2 assays $1,375.00/sample

  • Grinding/Crushing Fee $45/sample for samples over ¾” minus
Consulting
  • Consulting is done at $350.00 per hour.

  • Daily rate for travel West of Mississippi River is $3,275.00, plus travel, meals, lodging.

  • Daily rate for travel East of Mississippi River is $3,775.00, plus travel, meals, lodging.

  • Daily Rate for foreign travel is $4,800.00 plus Bus. Class travel, lodging, meals and tips. Minimums apply.

    • All travel is payable in advance, in full. To book, 50% must be placed with Advanced Analytical, with complete balance 21 days prior to departure. If travel window is less than 21 days, 100 % must be placed with Advanced Analytical to receive confirmed booking.
Proprietary Pretreatments/Process Testing
  • "Demasking" --- unique Black Bands liberation process.

    • This is a highly successful, one of a kind, pretreatment for Classic Black Sands that has been developed at MRA/Advanced Analytical in conjunction with collaborative scientists, which removes the black coating (Fe, Fe2O3 and others) from black sands and for the first time in history allows for easy recovery of Gold and the PGM's. This is a process that can be licensed from us but pre-testing to insure applicability to your ore is a prerequisite. The approximate price of the License and equipment is $400,000 US plus a smelter net and surety bond. We have documented examples that Demasking has increased the recovery on some ore upwards of 400 times.

    • Initial pre-testing including 2 assays $1,375.00

  • Direct Fire Capable Process-Volcanic Cinder

    • DFC Process is a unique process, which liberates and allows for easy furnace recovery from cinder ores, which have demonstrated the presents of Noble Metals, and also the predictable difficulties natural extraction from the volcanic cinder. As with the Demasking Process this process is available for licensing after pre-testing and prove up. If successful the process will typically allow recovery from somewhat standard tilt and induction furnaces.

    • Initial pre-test of DFC Process on cinder ore incl. assay $1,600.00
Professional Extraction Analysis/Process Reviews

Advanced Analytical offers the most leading edge platinum recovery and extraction testing anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. Using former talent from Stillwater/Montana, Johnson Mathey and the extraordinary expertise from the half century expertise of MRA Labs, we are able to develop processes of high percentage yield of metal in hand on ores previously unbreakable. Our public profile is intentionally low and we have a policy of high security and limited personal visitations to our facilities.
  • Phase I study per ore, designed to provide initial indications as to general commercial extractability and the extent to which "metals in hand" can be obtained; often used to indicate to potential investors and extractability. Includes 7 element noble metals.

  • Project Cost $22,000;  If Rhodium is involved as Target Metal, Add $13,500

  • Project Cycle; Five Weeks
Phase II Extraction Study/Recovery Circuit; designed to test ore or full array of generally predicted, but leading edge, mostly proprietary extraction components. Typically used to arrive at general identification of main components in extraction circuit. Highly successful pre treatments are tested, leading edge particle size testing done, then various particle sizes used on proprietary fluxes and leach formulas, concentration studies to derive most promising concentration methodology. Report at conclusion.

  • This Phase II has been developed from observing many clients and the myriad of "bunny trail" approach they have used to determine many of the essential elements necessary to arrive at a recovery circuit. We have instead brought order and decorum to a often chaotic series of events, addressing critical phases like particle size, innovative pretreatments, which concentrator might work on a particular ore, not to mention applying one's ore to highly successful platinum (PGM) leaches and fluxes, to provide a solid foundation as to which provides the highest yield.

  • Advanced Analytical Phase II is highly ordered, highly sequenced and very proprietary. Advanced Analytical has obtained some of the finest and most productive formulas and extraction consultants available anywhere. Call for detailed proposal.

  • Project Cost; $68,000.00 If Rhodium is also target Metal, Add $24,000.00

  • Estimated Project Cycle; 120 - 160 days.


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