Abstract
Owing to the invisibility of ultramicron gold (invisible gold) in “Carlin type” gold ore, it is extremely difficult to investigate its occurrence and distribution by conventional determinative means.EPMA has been proved to be very powerful instrument for doing research on this subject because it has advantages of high space resolution, nondestructive,getting quantitative analysis results and observing various kinds of images continuously with same equipment etc.The unoxidized ore sample is selected from drill cuttings at a “Carl in type” gold mine in Southwest China with gold tenor of 31.02 g/t and weighs 2438g. The operating conditions of EPMA are: accelerating voltage 25kV, beam current 1×10-8 A, beam diameter about 1 μm. AuLα but not AuMα is preferably chosen as analysed x-ray line, because AuMα1 (5.840A) is overlapping with the 3rd order line of FeKα (5.812A) to some extent and iron is the main component of pyrite matrix. According to the expression of detection limit(CDL ), the calculated value of CDL under the circumstances is 0.038%.
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