In a broad sense, a laboratory is a place where trial and error interact constantly to seek the truth. In a narrow sense, for Xertek, a new age testing laboratory, the challenge is to size the error up, control it, and assess it to bring CERTAINTY in the results that we daily deliver to our clients.

LABORATORY

Our team of experts and technical personnel access advanced equipment to ensure coherence and efficacy on all our processes.

We are a consolidated organization with an inherited background of over 50 years knowing and solving the most specialized requirements in the mining industry.

We are constantly innovating proactively supported by science and technology to maintain good quality standards in all aspects of labour safety, sound environmental practices and corporate responsibility.

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Our laboratory scope of the service

The stages of the process

  • Commercial office coordination customer oriented
  • Sample preparation room
  • Weighing balance room
  • Volumetric methods
  • Testing process 1 (fire assay)
  • Testing process 2 (instrumental-AAs-ICP-OES)
  • Quality control / quality assurance

Quality assurance control levels

The planning:

  • Schedule quality assurance and quality control
  • Training schedule
  • Schedule equipment maintenance and calibration program
  • Glass material calibration program

To do list:

  • Compliance: implementation of corrective actions, deadlines defined.
  • Dissemination of corrective actions application: assay development.

Verification:

  • Monitoring and verification of the application of the corrective criteria.
  • Precision control charts, truthfulness, blind sample program.
  • Proficiency testing program.
  • Control samples
  • Whites
  • Duplicates
  • Addition
  • Adding duplicateStandards