Your accounting of the situation has a particular bias and does not adequately account for how the Lab could have sent the kind of results Noront QA Professionals received. There is more to it than a few under trained Staffers at the equipment in the Lab. Labs have verification protocols to follow that should have allowed them to catch ANY problems early in the sample testing data review. But somehow the final results were sent out to Noront's QA Pros who were able to spot ALL the inadequacies.

A very different setup and operation as compared to Hospital Labs, which in the case of the Eastern Health Corp. were, by the way, eventually discovered to have problems but apparently lacked adequate reporting procedures etc.. The Minerals Exploration Industry, due to past experience, has learned its own lessons and have set up processes and procedures to prevent thers types of failures. We just experienced that they have indeed worked very well for us.

Others can take note by Noronts SUCCESS!

Old Joe