New Products:
We are pleased to announce that certification has been completed for the four new products tabulated below. They include our first manganese ore products and our second Eastern Limb PGM standard.

	CODE	4E	Pt	Pd
		ppm	ppm	ppm
Platinum, UG2, Western Limb ore	AMIS0074	2.07	1.07	0.72
Platinum, UG2, Eastern Limb tailings	AMIS0132	0.78	0.46	0.21
	CODE	Cu
		ppm
Copper sulphide, Omitiomire, Namibia	AMIS0088	3226
	CODE	Mn	MnO
		%	%
Manganese ore, Otjozondjupa, Namibia	AMIS0104	35.49	45.8

 

 PGM tailings:
AMIS0132 is our first ever PGM tailings “Certified Reference Material”, made from material supplied by Aquarius Platinum's Everest Mine. The certificate is available on the website under Platinum – UG2.

Certified Reference Materials (CRM’s):
Our previous products are all “Reference Materials”. Some new certificates include calculated uncertainty measurements.  These determinations may be used by labs as a component for calculating their own total uncertainty for method validation (see certificates for a detailed description of the new products below).  The new materials, with CSU data, fulfill ISO requirements and are  described as “Certified Reference Materials”. An explanation has been posted in the Technical Section on the website.

Expanded Technical Section:
In response to customer queries we have put a lot more information on the technical page of our website. This  includes:
•    an explanantion of shipping regulations for our uranium standards
•    lots of definitions
•    how to use the limits
•    simple QA procedures, including an explanation of the use of multiple rules