OSP™ is a highly effective tool used to analyze and evaluate the optimization of a sampling protocol. Heterogeneity Tests are performed to discover sampling characteristics of new, unknown material. OSP™ simplifies complex calculations and provides a logical format to help you interpret Heterogeneity Tests.
Nomographs are the fundamental graphical methodology used to facilitate the presentation and interpretation of:
- Sampling for size distribution analysis
- Liberated precious or base metals
- Heterogeneity Tests involving fragments or samples collected one by one
- Heterogeneity Tests involving duplicate samples
- Pairs data analysis
OSP™ is used to optimize sampling protocols for particle size distribution analysis, for liberated precious metals, and for non-liberated components of interest.
OSP™ is used to detect conditional biases in two series of measurements generated by two different methods.
Graphical techniques facilitate the presentation and interpretation of these analyses. A nomograph allows one to represent a relationship among three variables on a two dimensional chart. For example, Option 1 (Size) relates the three variables:
- Maximum particle size of liberated metal, d
- Variance of the Fundamental Error, S2FE
- Sample weight, MS