assayer
noun[C]
uk/əˈseɪər/usapersonorcompanythattestsametal, etc. tofindout howpureit is:
thechiefassayer at the Birmingham AssayOffice
assay
verb[T]
Webuy,refine, and assay allformsofgold,silver, andplatinum.
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The delusion was abetted by unscrupulous assayers, and by swindlers selling secret metallurgical processes to extract gold from the shale.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was appointed as a member of a royal commission on collieries in 1886 and worked as a mining captain andassayerin 1890.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some minor modifications were subsequently made in the location of the mintmark and assayer's initials.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The case was over the role of assayers when acting as brokers between mine vendors and mine purchasers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After he had completed his courses there in 1820 he obtained employment, chiefly as anassayer, in connexion with the royal mines and metal works.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are trials in the full judicial sense, presided over by a judge with an expert jury of assayers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Exhibitions include a replica of a mining tunnel and an assayer's office, both which visitors walk through.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Within five years new brokers, assayers and refiners opened.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The town was composed of tents and log cabins, but soon had stores, carpenters, a hotel, saloon, blacksmith shop, and anassayer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In some countries, the testing of silver objects and marking of purity is controlled by a national assayer's office.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the production of these coins some minor modifications were made in the location of the mintmark and assayer's initials.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some cobs were struck with a date, and most show a mintmark and an initial or monogram for theassayer, the mint official who was responsible for weight and fineness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The town later boasted a physician,assayer, notary, shoemaker, two hotels, two saloons, another livery yard, an opera house, a tin shop, and two more sawmills.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Different recipes depend on the expertise of theassayeror on the special purpose for which it was made (assays for minting, jewelry, testing purity of recycled material or coins).
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