Tailored To The Highest Standards

When deposits or materials feature challenging matrices, specific grade ranges, or analytical requirements not adequately covered by catalogue products, OREAS® Custom Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) provide solutions tailored to the technical requirements of your project. 

From refractory gold and polymetallic systems to battery metals, rare earths, and tightly constrained grade ranges, OREAS Custom CRMs support reliable QA/QC monitoring and greater confidence in analytical performance across your selected methods. 

Material Preparation & Homogeneity

Custom CRMs can be produced from:

  • Client-supplied materials
  • OREAS source materials
  • Custom blends of both

With more than 500 tonnes of characterised source materials warehoused onsite, OREAS can develop CRM blends that closely reflect the composition, mineralisation style, and grade profile of your target orebody.

Production Scale

Available in batch sizes from 50 kg to 12,000 kg, supporting the full project lifecycle from early-stage exploration and feasibility studies through to mine production, downstream metallurgical processing, and long-term operational QA/QC.

Certification Framework

All OREAS Custom CRMs are produced under the same rigorous framework applied to OREAS catalogue products.

Certification is conducted in accordance with internationally recognised guidelines and under OREAS’ ISO 17034 accredited systems, providing confidence in traceability, statistical validity, documentation integrity and auditability.

OREAS works with leading analytical laboratories worldwide to ensure appropriate analytical methods are selected for your commodity and matrix. We select laboratories based on technical capability, accreditation, and suitability for the specific analytical requirements of the project.

Certificate of Analysis

Each Custom CRM is supplied with a comprehensive Certificate of Analysis including:

  • Certified values and their 95% expanded uncertainties
  • 95% tolerance intervals (a measure of homogeneity)
  • Performance gates (based on standard deviations)
  • Graphical round robin data for key analytes
  • Tabulated full laboratory results

Development Timeline

Typical development timelines range from 3–6 months following receipt of source materials, depending on analytical scope, laboratory scheduling, and certification complexity.

Discuss your Requirements

Speak with the OREAS team about your matrix, grade range, analytical program, and production requirements, or download and complete our Custom Quote Request and send it to sales@ore.com.au

Our team will work with you to design the project specifications and define the most efficient and statistically robust pathway from sample preparation through to certification.

CRMs You Can Rely On

CRMs can be prepared in batch sizes from 100kg to 12,000kg, packed in unit sizes from 5g to 200kg (± inert gas) and certified in a rigorous round robin program for your analytes of interest.

Every reference material, whether from our OREAS range or Custom CRMs, is manufactured to the highest world class standards. Our quality control protocols ensure meticulous attention to detail at every stage, supported by long-standing experts in the field to assist you throughout your entire quality program.

We are the only manufacturer that both test and provide a guarantee* of homogeneity of gold (and PGE) across all OREAS and Custom CRMs irrespective of the presence of coarse gold in the source materials.

*Quality Assurance Guarantee – a coefficient of variation (1RSD) of < 1% when calculated for a typical 30g fire assay using the results from 20 x≤1g INAA results and the Sampling Constant (as per the known relationship between SD and sample mass following Ingamells & Switzer, 1973).

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