Abstract
THE advances in the assay of the precious metals of late years have been directed mainly towards improvement in detail, and have not resulted in any great change in method or in the discovery of new principles. Nevertheless, the minor changes have been numerous, great numbers of useful observations have been made, and it was high time that a new and complete account should be prepared, setting forth the present varied practice, with the considerations on which it is based. The author of this volume is well equipped for such a task, and has produced a valuable treatise which may be taken as authoritative.
The Sampling and Assay of the Precious Metals: comprising Gold, Silver, Platinum, and the Platinum Group Metals in Ores, Bullion, and Products.
By E. A. Smith. Pp. xv + 460. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 15s. net.
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R., T. The Sampling and Assay of the Precious Metals: comprising Gold, Silver, Platinum, and the Platinum Group Metals in Ores, Bullion, and Products . Nature 93, 157–158 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093157b0
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