Jan 28, 2025

Join Our Laboratory Tour and Sampling Workshop

We are looking forward to the various insightful speaker and panel sessions at the Assaying & Refining Conference 2025, but did you know about our optional extras for attendees on Wednesday, 19 March from 09:00 to 12:30 GMT?

Bureau Veritas Tour

The Bureau Veritas Tour provides a rare opportunity to see experts at work in one of the leading metals and minerals laboratories in the world, providing a behind-the-scenes look into the world of testing, inspection and certification.

Tour Fees

  • £70.00 + VAT per person (lunch and coach transfer included)

Another tour will be announced in due course, so watch this space.

Sampling Workshop

Depending on the amount and diversity of the material encountered, sampling errors are typically much larger than assaying errors, very often endangering representativity. How can you guarantee a representative sample and analytical result?

Kim H. Esbensen (Senior Consultant and Professor at KHE Consulting - and one of our esteemed keynote speakers) will be leading a three-hour workshop on the Theory of Sampling, which will include:

  • Principles of the Theory of Sampling;
  • What happens in the critical 'before analysis' domain;
  • Which errors matter and what to do; and
  • Resolution - the universal standard DS3077:2024 (3. ed.).

Workshop Fees

  • £133 per person; and as part of your registration, you will also receive a copy of Kim H. Esbensen's book, Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Sampling.


You will have the option to sign up to the tour and/or workshop when you complete registration for the Assaying & Refining Conference. If you have already registered for the Conference, you can modify your registration below and sign up to the tour and/or workshop.