Are you getting the grinding media you pay for? Affordable, unbiased metallurgical assessment from Silver Lake Analytical Services, LLC, helps you manage grinding media quality. As one of a mine's largest expenses, poor grinding media affects consumption, hits your budget and slows production. Remember, grinding media steels are one of the only steel product groups with no ASTM standards. Silver Lake Analytical Services can help you in three different ways: 1. Ensure quality: routine quality assurance testing ensures you catch product variability before it affects consumption 2. Evaluate suppliers: mill trials are costly and costs to change suppliers is a barrier, so you need to qualify suppliers first for fewer surprises 3. Analyze breakage: breakage in the mill affects production and costs, so getting to the why faster gets your operation back on track faster Silver Lake Analytical only works with grinding media steels. Our process includes; • Surface analysis • Sample cutting using specialized equipment to ensure microstructure isn't altered • Hardness measurements from the surface to the center • Prior austenitic grain size estimating at the surface and center • Full chemical composition analysis • Calculation of several chemical composition dependent characteristics • Written report summarizing findings Clients past and present include: • AuRico Gold, Canada • ASARCO, USA • Barrick Gold, USA • Freeport McMoRan, USA • Newmont Mining, USA • Rio Tinto, USA • KGHM, USA • Minera San Cristobal, Bolivia • Teck Highland Valley Copper Partnership, Canada Owner and metallurgical engineer Allyen Wilson is a long-time professional member in good standing of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME). Get in touch directly: 1+303-522-0412 (US Mountain Time Zone) awilson@silverlakeanalytical.com