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This 3-minute video offers an animated view of how a sampling system obtains a representative sample directly from the material stream on your troughed belt\u00a0conveyor. It illustrates how the equipment extracts a cross-belt sample from a variety of applications including coal, limestone, sand, crushed rock, ferrous and non-ferrous ores, and concentrates for analysis.\u00a0 How do you know if the sample is uniform material?\u00a0 Do you need to crush the material? What if multi-stage sampling is required?\u00a0 You can see it all here in this video<\/a>. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This 3-minute video offers an animated view of how a sampling system obtains a representative sample directly from the material stream on your troughed belt\u00a0conveyor. 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