SGS LQSI Proficiency Testing

We offer a wide range of minerals proficiency testing programs (PTPs) to confirm the technical validity of your lab’s results. We offer PTPs for:

• Coal
• Metallurgical coke
• Petroleum coke
• Solid biofuels
• Fertilizers (phosphate, nitrogen, potassium/potash and rock phosphate)
• Concentrates (copper, lead and zinc)
• Ores (chrome, iron, manganese, gold and base metals)
• Bauxite
• Sulfur
• Limestone
• Cement clinker

We will send you a quality control sample for analysis. You must enter your results onto our database within approximately one month. We will then statistically compare all the analysis results we have received and let you know how your lab performed with a report that is easy to read and understand and is available 24x7x365.

You will have access to an industry expert who will:

• Help you to develop a customized round robin testing program
• Answer your questions
• Clarify your report results
• Advise you on any necessary next steps

We have received ISO 17034:2016 accreditation for certified reference materials. Accreditation to this standard requires reference material producers to demonstrate their competence in producing reference materials of the highest quality, provide strong statistical evidence for the certified values and have a solid management system in place.

By achieving this accreditation, our LQSi team not only enhances its already strong proficiency testing capabilities, but also provides international mining companies and commercial laboratory groups with increased confidence in our rigorous proficiency round robin programs.

In addition to offering the industry a ready-to-use use certified reference material library, our LQSi can also create company specific certified reference materials tailored to individually provided client materials.

• Interlaboratory proficiency testing from a world leading, ISO 17043 accredited testing provider
• Access to an industry expert
• Industry-leading turnaround times
• User friendly, easily accessible reports
• Confidentiality assured
• Objective evidence that your lab meets ISO 17025 requirements

Our customers include:

• Mining companies
• Electricity generators
• Coking plants
• Cement manufacturers
• Oil refineries
• Metal processors
• Commercial laboratories

We are the world’s leading testing, inspecting and certification company. Services. We are considered the global benchmark for quality and integrity, with an unrivaled global laboratory network. As a technical leader across mining disciplines, we have participated in the development of national and international standards, including ASTM standards. We provide independent, trusted services for the mining value chain across North American and internationally.