average assay value
average assay value
[′av·rij ′a‚sā ‚val·yü] (mining engineering)
The weighted result of assays obtained from a number of samples by multiplying the assay value of each sample by the width or thickness of the ore face over which it is taken and dividing the sum of these products by the total width of cross section sampled.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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"Above 306m depth, these assays include significant intervals with
average assay values above 1.5 g/t Au totaling 87 m at 2.04 g/t Au and above 0.4 g/t Au totaling 127 m at 1.57 g/t Au.
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