OREAS CRMs for Today’s Commodity Markets

Global commodity markets remain strong in early 2026, reflecting sustained demand and ongoing supply constraints that continue to shape exploration priorities and analytical requirements across the mining sector.

All products and product suites referenced below are scheduled for release and availability during Q1 2026.

Gold and silver continue to attract both investment and industrial interest. Elevated gold prices, supported by central bank buying and geopolitical uncertainty, are driving renewed focus on resource definition and grade control, while silver’s dual role as a precious and industrial metal is increasing analytical scrutiny across a wider range of ore types and concentration levels.

Copper remains fundamental to electrification, renewable energy and AI-enabled infrastructure. With supply struggling to keep pace with rising consumption, copper projects are increasingly characterized by tighter margins, more complex mineralizationlisation and greater reliance on accurate, reproducible analytical data to support development and operational decisions.

Together, these conditions reinforce the importance of robust analytical quality control throughout exploration, processing and metallurgical workflows.

Gold–Silver–Copper CRM Suite

OREAS 612–615 comprise a suite of certified reference materials developed to support the analytical demands of gold–silver–copper and polymetallic systems commonly encountered in felsic volcanic and concentrate-rich environments. Produced from carefully blended rhyodacite-hosted ores, silver concentrates and copper-sulfide materials, the suite reflects matrices routinely analyzeded across exploration, mine and metallurgical laboratories.

These materials provide matrix-appropriate standards for calibration and routine QA/QC of multi-element geochemical methods, including fire assay for Au and Ag, multi-acid digestion ICP-OES/MS for base metals, and key pathfinder elements such as Ag, As, Cu, Mn, Pb, Sb and Zn. By covering a practical range of precious and base metal tenors, OREAS 612–615 support consistent performance monitoring across diverse sample types, from exploration trenching and drill core through to grade control in mining applications.

Critical / REE CRMs

OREAS 470–474 address the analytical challenges associated with rare earth element determination in clay-hosted and lateritic systems, where matrix effects, low-level concentrations and inter-element interference place increased demands on method validation and quality control.

Base Metal Support

Additional releases, OREAS 320, 926b, 928b, 929b, 932c and 161b, extend analytical support across zinc–lead–silver and copper-dominant ore systems that underpin global base-metal supply. Sourced from geologically diverse operations, these CRMs reflect sediment-hosted, structurally controlled and volcanogenic mineralisation styles routinely encountered in both greenfields and brownfields programs.

Together, these materials span Zn–Pb–Ag ores and concentrates, copper-rich siltstone-hosted mineralisation and lower-grade copper matrices, enabling laboratories to manage analytical bias, monitor method stability and maintain confidence across a wide range of grades and sulphide assemblages.

Why These Products Matter Now

As demand for copper accelerates through electrification and energy transition, gold maintains its strategic role, and silver continues to bridge precious and industrial markets, analytical confidence becomes increasingly critical. Well-characterised, matrix-matched CRMs underpin reliable data generation, support method validation and enable meaningful interlaboratory comparability.

Across exploration, resource development and processing, OREAS CRMs both newly released and currently ranged, provide a technically robust foundation for analytical decision making in 2026 and beyond.