Four samples of COMILOG Manganese ore (labelled Samples 1 to 4) were tested in the RTI AllScan test rig at Mackay, Australia, with the purpose of determining how accurately PGNAA technology could determine elemental composition of important elemental components of the Manganese ore (typically Mn, SiO2, Al2O3, Fe, P and K2O).
The sample spectra from the AllScan were then analysed to determine elemental concentrations, and a simulation of these results was undertaken to determine the precision to which the assay could be determined.