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Originally posted by single fin:
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just so you know from an industry prospective, priority sampling is offered by labs all across the world. "slipping in" small batches as you put it is absolutely what happens. the reason its possible is that 20 ort 30 samples really doesnt take very long to prepare for analysis. they have multiple stations so its not like the starndard sampling first come first served stops.. ALS burnie did tell me there were somewhere in the order of 1000 rosberry samples awaiting preparation at the time i spoke to them. if a company is prepared to pay a premium through arrangement with the lab for a fast turn around, then they just wait until they are between batches on the regular samples and do them to get them out quickly. Ive personally done this with ALS and SGS in tassie as well as other places in Australia and overseas..
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Yeah agree with your comments, even allowing for the possibility of single shift diamond drilling, delays in getting core logged and cut (in the order of days not weeks and months) and then sample prep bottlenecks at ALS in Burnie (as you say, once prepped the pulps can be flown to any ALS lab with fire assay equipment e.g. all of them can do fire assay and screen fire assay for high grade Au).
(20min delay)