What is "assays"

Usage examples of "assays".

Having seen the ores and assays, we are satisfied that the mines of the District are very valuable--anything but wild-cat.

Those meals had been anything he could buy cheaply and eat quickly before returning to his laboratory where he did assays and other work to finance his research.

He also couldn't hold the teams back from discovering deposits: they got credit bonuses based on the assays of their individual discoveries.

Talent was in short supply everywhere and in every kind, from the metal finder who could locate high grade ore precisely and perform remote assays which would cost a regular crew millions of credits and years of time in scant seconds, to the electronic specialist who could detect faults in circuitry by its `feel' The Raven clan had produced a number of such Talents but, until the Penetration had tapped these hidden resources, such natural abilities had gone relatively untrained.

From primal assays alone, coupled with the development of the mine and public confidence in the continuance of effort, the stock had reared itself to eight hundred dollars market value.

On the authority of such assays its newspaper correspondents were frothing about rock worth four and seven thousand dollars a ton!

Of course the fire-assay would demonstrate that a ton of such rock would yield hundreds of dollars--and on such assays many an utterly worthless mine was sold.