Lynda Bloom - “Dirty” Little Secrets of Assay Quality Control

It has been almost 25 years since Bre-X inspired the implementation of technical reports worldwide. The reporting requirements triggered the use of quality control (QC) materials (blanks and certified reference materials) and quality improvements at commercial laboratories.
Many aspects of monitoring QC have been automated and commercial CRMs are readily available. But questions remain about insertion rates, the selection of CRMs, defining acceptance values for CRMs and how to use duplicate data. There is a lack of clarity about issues like the role of core duplicates, monitoring non-commodity elements in a multi-element package and how to report precision.
Quality control is a system to manage risks and we should ask if we are managing the risks appropriately. Come and explore this with us as the renowned Lynda Bloom joins us on the geohug hot seat.

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Great session. I really learned a lot. Thank you very much.