SY-4 Diorite Gneiss

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Certificate of Analysis

First Issued: June 1995
Version: June 1995

Description

SY-4 is a diorite gneiss obtained from an outcrop of the Rosenthal-Reid Lake Belt in Brudenell Township, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It is intended as a replacement for the popular rock reference material, SY-2, which is now depleted.

Over 350 kg of rock was collected. This was dried, cleaned, broken, crushed and ground to -74 µm (-200 mesh). The powdered material was blended and bottled in 100-g lots. The analyses for homogeneity assessment were performed by the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). This involved a complete whole-rock analysis along with barium, strontium, rubidium and zirconium on 22 bottles chosen according to a stratified random sampling scheme. The analysis was done in duplicate using a fused-disk X-ray fluorescence technique.

Mineralogical investigation of SY-4 revealed major amounts of oligoclase and scapolite and minor amounts of biotite, calcite and analcime along with trace amounts of magnetite and apatite.

Certified Values

Eighty-nine university, commercial, and government laboratories from all over the world participated in an interlaboratory certification program. Up to 80 elements were analyzed by methods of each laboratory's choice. A statistical analysis of the data yielded Certified Values for 49 constituents and provisional values for 8 more.

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Reference

The certification report is available upon request to :

CCRMP, CanmetMINING
555 Booth Street
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0G1
Canada

Telephone: 343-543-6830
E-mail: Contact CCRMP

Certified Values ±95% Confidence Interval

Al2O3	20.69 ± 0.08 %	MgO	0.54 ± 0.01 %
CaO	8.05 ± 0.04 %	MnO	0.108 ± 0.001 %
CO2	3.5 ± 0.1 %	Na2O	7.10 ± 0.05 %
Fe2O3 total	6.21 ± 0.03 %	P2O5	0.131 ± 0.004 %
FeO	2.86 ± 0.09 %	SiO2	49.9 ± 0.1 %
K2O	1.66 ± 0.02 %	TiO2	0.287 ± 0.003 %
Ba	340 ± 5 µg/g	LOI	4.56 ± 0.07 %
Be	2.6 ± 0.1 µg/g	Nd	57 ± 1 µg/g
Ce	122 ± 2 µg/g	Ni	9 ± 1 µg/g
Co	2.8 ± 0.2 µg/g	Pb	10 ± 1 µg/g
Cr	12 ± 1 µg/g	Pr	15.0 ± 0.3 µg/g
Cs	1.5 ± 0.1 µg/g	Rb	55 ± 1.5 µg/g
Cu	7 ± 1 µg/g	Sc	1.1 ± 0.1 µg/g
Dy	18.2 ± 0.6 µg/g	Sm	12.7 ± 0.4 µg/g
Er	14.2 ± 0.5 µg/g	Sr	1191 ± 12 µg/g
Eu	2.00 ± 0.04 µg/g	Ta	0.9 ± 0.1 µg/g
Ga	35 ± 1 µg/g	Tb	2.6 ± 0.1 µg/g
Gd	14.0 ± 0.5 µg/g	Th	1.4 ± 0.2 µg/g
Hf	10.6 ± 0.4 µg/g	Tm	2.3 ± 0.1 µg/g
Ho	4.3 ± 0.1 µg/g	U	0.8 ± 0.1 µg/g
La	58 ± 1 µg/g	V	8 ± 1.6 µg/g
Li	37 ± 2 µg/g	Y	119 ± 2 µg/g
Lu	2.1 ± 0.1 µg/g	Yb	14.8 ± 0.4 µg/g
Mn	819 ± 24 µg/g	Zn	93 ± 2 µg/g
Nb	13 ± 1 µg/g	Zr	517 ± 16 µg/g

Provisional Values ± 95% Confidence Interval

C	1.0 ± 0.1 %	H2O-	0.15 ± 0.05 %
F	0.06 ± 0.01 %	S total	0.015 ± 0.004 %
H2O+	1.0 ± 0.3 %
Ag	0.6 ± 0.16 µg/g	Sn	7.1 ± 0.6 µg/g
Br	217 ± 14 µg/g

Information Values (Range)

Cl	0.3 - 0.6 %	SO3	0.01 - 0.08 %
As	0.1 - 2 µg/g	Mo	0.2 - 3 µg/g
B	13 - 18 µg/g	Sb	0.01 - 0.3 µg/g
Bi	0.1 - 0.3 µg/g	Se	0.01 - 4 µg/g
Cd	0.1 - 2 µg/g	Ti	1500 - 1750 µg/g
Ge	1 - 4 µg/g	Tl	0.2 - 0.5 µg/g
Hg	10 - 14 ng/g*	W	0.2 - 15 µg/g
In	0.04 - 0.1 µg/g

* ng/g = 10-9 g/g (i.e., ppb)