This Alaska Business: Oxford Assaying & Refining

[Music] so really there's two facets to our business one one side of the business we refine the gold that's mined up here in Alaska we service the smaller Mona mining operations up to about 200 employees and then on the other side uh we offer a full sale bullan investment Service uh to clients so if somebody wants to come in and invest in gold or silver bullan uh some of the newmatic coins that we have here uh when we do that wholesale [Music] General we are busiest during the summertime because with the two ends of our business bullan Keeps Us busy year round you can only mine plaster gold here in the summertime because the rest of the time the ground is Frozen uh so really ramping up into from July until October November is going to be uh more stressful [Applause] x-ray fluoresence technology to x-ray the sample and tell us the makeup of it I can uh run a quick assay on their gold not a fire assay but an x-ray assay to tell me the approximate makeup of this so like this piece here when we hit it on the X-ray was telling us that it was 88.7% gold and right about 9% silver which is pretty average for the state of Alaska

Channel: Alaska Business

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Length: 1min 28sec (88 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 21 2024