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Bench Boost by Inorganic Ventures

Troubleshooting Mining Samples Common Causes of Bad Data

March 31, 2026·23 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Send us Fan Mail This week on Bench Boost Mike, Autumn, Micah, and Josh discuss common ICP-OES/ICP-MS issues in mining analyses and how to troubleshoot them by separating sample-prep from instrument root causes. Key sample-prep problems include incomplete digestion of refractory minerals, loss of volatile analytes, spitting, and adsorption/instability during transfers. They review contamination before jumping into issues borne from instrument assays; covering the topics of matrix effects from...

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