Mineral Sampling ScienceDirect
01/01/2016#0183;#32;The sample mass can then be reduced to 1 g through a sequence of mass reduction and size reduction (C to D to E to F). Problems. Iron ore was sampled before stock piling with a stacker. One hundred samples taken from the stackerconveyor showed a standard deviation in the iron assay of #177;%. The ore assayed, on average, 59% Fe. Sieve analysis of the samples showed that