• Gold Round Robin

    What is the Gold Round Robin? The Gold Round Robin is a means for Society of Mineral Analysts (SMA) members to assess the quality of their analytical technique. This is accomplished by the exchange of samples between participating laboratories. These participating laboratories then analyze the samples for gold content. Participating laboratories can be either an analyzing laboratory or a shipping & analyzing laboratory. Read More

  • Executive Committee

    The 2012-13 SMA Executive Committee has many new faces this year.  Hopefully, you get to know them better in the months ahead as we profile who they are.  What's especially exciting is that these new members cover a much larger geographic area than we'd had in a while. Read More

  • SMA Membership

    Would you like to become an SMA member?  Do you need to "Renew" your membership?  Do you want the learn more about the SMA?   For answers to these and other questions.... Read More

  • Mining Health and Safety Webinar

    Univ of California Berkeley COEH Mining Health & Safety Webinar series (May 16 through June 20, 2013)--general announcement I am pleased to announce the Spring, 2013 Mining Health and Safety Webinar Series being conducted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), a NIOSH-designated Education and Research Center.    The live webinars will be held on consecutive Thursday mornings, 11 AM – 12 PM (Pacific) from May 16 to June 20, 2013.  Read More
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Website Construction

websiteThe Society of Mineral Analysts website has been under construction.  Thanks for your patience.  Not everything is ready yet but there are many new and different features to check out.

We upgraded to Joomla 2.5 with a RocketTheme called Graffito. It's built with the Gantry4 Framework, it features a responsive layout and LESS CSS support for dynamic behaviours within stylesheets.  All that really means is that it looks nice and it should function well on notepads and smart phones.

"Annual Proceedings" and "Lab Procedures" - Have been updated in the "Education Area".  I am currently work on some "Technical Papers" and "Training Manuals" or check in often because things are changing.  Remember to login or you can't see the files in the "Education" area.

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Exhibitor Profiles

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific +

    Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers… Read More

  • Agilent Technologies +

    As the world's premier measurement company, Agilent offers the broadest range of innovative measurement solutions in the industry. The company's… Read More

  • PerkinElmer +

    A leading provider of precision instrumentation, reagents and chemistries, software and services for a wide range of scientific and industrial… Read More

  • Anachemia Mining +

    We are a leader in global distribution of products for precious metal analysis and sample preparation. With experience in shipping… Read More

  • Legend Inc. +

    Wholesale Distributors of Products to Mining Professionals. Legend Inc. offers a complete range of products for Geology, Prospectors, Mining, Metallurgy,… Read More
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Website Features

  • Forum
  • Social Networking
  • New Shopping Cart
  • Updated Resource Tools

The SMA Discussion Forum uses "Kunena" forum, which is an open source software from the Kunena Project.  I've include some material taken from Wikipedia that describes "Forums" if you are a newbie.

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.  They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.

Forums have a specific set of jargon associated with them; e.g. a single conversation is called a "thread".

A discussion forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure: a forum can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as so wish.

Depending on the forum's settings, users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum and then subsequently log in in order to post messages. On most forums, users do not have to log in to read existing messages.

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Social Networking, Membership Management, and Website Access.  Those are the things that Joomlapolis' "Community Builder" provides the website.

  • Social Networking: Unless you live under a rock you've heard of "Facebook", "Linkedin" "Twitter", "Youtube"  We'll you can now do all those kinds of things on the SMA website.  But without the advertizing and only with fellow SMA members.
  • Membership Management: Update your membership records or find the contact info of other SMA members.
  • Website Access: Now only one access password to all SMA functions.

 

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  Our new "Shopping Cart software, "HikaShop" is now intergrated into Joomla.  What that mean for you and me?  No additional registrations and passwords for you and less maintenance for me.  We are now using PayPal Pro as our merchant solution.  What's this mean?  If you have a PayPal account you can use your PayPal amount to pay your membership, registrations, etc.  If you don't have a PayPal account you can directly pay with your credit or debit card.  No need for a PayPal account.  We now accept:                            

  
  • Bankcard
  • Visa
  • Switch
  • Discover
  • PayPal Express Checkout
  • American Express
  • Solo
  • MasterCard

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With updated versions of "DocMan" by Joomlatools and "Remository" by Remository Software we are hoping to provide easy access to a number of SMA documents.  The SMA documents in the Education areas comprise a number of areas: Method Manuals, Training Manuals, Technical Papers, Safety Manuals, Laboratory Procedures, Annual Proceedings, Software Resources.

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