The Sixth LBMA Assaying and Refining Conference 2015
Friday, March 06, 2015
Programme of Sessions and Speakers for the 2015 LBMA Assaying and Refining Conference
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- Welcome Remarks - LBMA Chief Executive
Ruth Crowell - The LBMA Good Delivery List - Recent and Future Developments
Stewart Murray, LBMA Good Delivery Consultant View Slides - LBMA Reference Materials - AuRM3 Update & Future Reference Materials
Mike Hinds, Royal Canadian Mint View Slides - LBMA Proficiency Testing
Jonathan Jodry, Metalor Technologies SA View Slides - Fire Assay Round Robin Organised by the Japan Mint
Satomi Tabuchi, Japan Mint View Slides - Observations on the Determination of Gold in Gold Alloys – Cupellation Method (Fire Assay)
Dippal Manchanda,Birmingham Assay Office View Slides - XRF for Hallmarking at The Goldsmith’s Company Assay Office
Chris Walne, London Assay Office View Slides - Analysis of Gold 995-999.9% Using MP-AES
Jean-Pascal Bourgeois, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland View Slides - Analysis of Gold 995-999.9% Using Spark-OES
Madeleine Theron, Rand Refinery View Slides - Analysis of Gold 995-999.9% Containing Large Amount of Copper
Daniela Manara, PAMP View Slides - Study of Ag analysis Potentiometric and Fire Assay
Robert Lawrence, Johnson Matthey Ltd, Canada View Slides - Manufacture of Certified Reference Materials AuRM3 for London Bullion Market Association
Elizbar Aliev, Krastsvetmet View Slides - LPPM/ Pt & Pd Certified Reference Materials (CRM) Project Update
Hiroshi Sawai, Tanaka Kikinzoku View Slides - Analysis of the Chemical and Structural Integrity of Gold Bullion Bar by Eddy Current Probes
Quentin Bochud, Metalor Technologies and Daniel Sutter, Helmut-Fischer View Slides - Detection of fake gold, silver bars and coins with Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy
George Rhodes View Slides - Different Approaches to the Use of Ultrasonics in London Vaults
Neil Harby, Good Delivery Officer, London Bullion Market Association View Slides - How the Battle against Counterfeiting in the Coin Industry has driven Innovation
David Janczewski, Royal Mint View Slides - Study of Element Fingerprinting in Gold DORÉ by Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry
Mike Hinds, Royal Canadian Mint View Slides - Visual Guide 2
Stewart Murray, LBMA Good Delivery Consultant View Slides - Precious Metal Logistics and the Value Chain
Tony Evanson, Brink's View Slides - AcidLess Separation Technology for Refining Gold
Federico Padrono Martini, IKOI View Slides - Assaying and Analysis Choices in Practice
Dirk Hofmans, Umicore View Slides - The Smallest Things can Often Create the Biggest Problems
Kevin Tucker, Inspectorate International View Slides - Statistics and Splitting Limits- Review of Au Fire Assay
Jon Forrest, Royal Canadian Mint View Slides - Uncertainty and Fineness Marking of Bars
Alessandro Ruffoni, Argor-HeraeusView Slides
Day 1 Monday 9th March
Session 1: Introduction and the Work of the LBMA
Session 2: Assaying
Session 3: Analytical Methods
Session 4: Reference Materials and Other Analytical Methods
Day 2 Tuesday 10th March
Session 5: Bar Integrity
Session 6: Practical Issues
Session 7: Dealing with Uncertainty
