Quality assurance 2015 - Webinar on QA-QC for The Industry

Overview:
We have implemented a quality assurance program for the field sampling procedures which include collection, labeling, and shipping components. Quality assurance is essentially the management system that operates to ensure credible results.
Our quality control component of this system is a set of activities intended to control the quality of the data from collection through to analysis. It consists of day-to-day activities such as: the adherence to written protocols; up-to-date and suitable training of personnel; the use of reliable laboratories with excellent QA&QC systems in place, the regular use of quality control (QC) samples (blanks, standard samples, and field duplicates); and, diligent record keeping. The prime objective of the field QA program is to maximize accuracy by reducing introduced variability..
Why should you Attend:
Appropriate Sampling and Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures are essential in all aspects of the mineral deposit evaluation process to ensure the best possible confidence in resultant mineral resource and reserve estimates are achieved; the quality of an estimate is dependent on the quality of the data used.
The Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures and protocols are designed to ensure that data collected and created by the Company is of a high level of quality and is in compliance with CIM Standards and Guidelines. In practical terms, geological quality control procedures are intended to monitor precision and accuracy of the assay data, as well as possible sample contamination during sample preparation and assaying. Compliance with the Industry established QA/QC are no longer an option, but a necessity for all the companies to implement, especially those that trades in the markets.
Areas Covered in the Session:
Designing a program
Blanks, duplicates, estandards, external controls.
Laboratory procedures
Drilling procedures
Rock naming in the field
General recommendations
Who Will Benefit:
Geologists
Geochemists
Exploration personnel
Speaker Profile:
Ricardo Valls, As a professional geologist with thirty years in the mining industry, I have extensive geological, geochemical, and mining experience, managerial skills, and a solid background in research techniques, and training of technical personnel. I am fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Russian. I have been involved in various projects world-wide (Canada, Africa, Russia, Indonesia, the Caribbean and Central and South America). Projects included from regional reconnaissance to local mapping, diamond drilling and RC-drilling programs, open pit and underground mapping and sampling, geochemical sampling and interpretation, and several exploration techniques pertaining to the search for diamonds, PGM, gold, nickel, silver, base metals, industrial minerals, oil & gas, and other magmatic, hydrothermal, porphyritic, VMS and SEDEX ore deposits. Special strengths are related to acquisition of new properties, geochemical and geological studies, management and organization, geomathematical analysis and modelling, compositional data analysis, structural studies, database design, QA&QC studies, exploration studies and writing technical reports. P.Geo. registered in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.