Quality control and assurance (QAQC)

Abstract

The chapter provides a detailed review of the modern principles and techniques applied in mining industry to assure the samples quality and their appropriateness for evaluation of the mineral deposits. This group of techniques is traditionally referenced as Quality Assurance – Quality Control system and often called by acronym ‘QAQC’. In general, QAQC procedures consist of monitoring accuracy and precision of analytical results, controlling the samples contamination, timely diagnostics of the sample errors and identification the error sources.