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Gold/Mining/Energy : Desert Dirts, Gold & Platinum, the emperors new clothes
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To: knight who wrote (1432)5/18/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: Tim Hall  Read Replies (2) of 1913
 
knight,

Below is a note I received from an assayer I know. I will try to get the book in the next couple of days and look up the specific information.

Hi Tim,

Yes, I'm not only familiar with the Edward Bugbee book, "A Textbook of
Fire Assaying", but I have a copy of the book (3rd Ed. pub. 1940). It
has long been considered "The Bible" of fire assaying. You are welcome to borrow it and/or copy the relevant pages. Bugbee discusses platinum and iridium assays and the determination of iridium in platinum alloys. In a fire assay of a sample which contains both iridium and platinum, some of the iridium may be found with the platinum when it is separated. There are ways to overcome the problem, however.
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