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This document specifies an acid digestion and flame atomic absorption spectrometric (AAS) method, or inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometric (ICP-OES) method for the determination of the mass fraction of silver in copper and zinc sulfide concentrates.The method is applicable to concentrates having silver contents in the following ranges.— copper concentrates: 10 g/t to 800 g/t ;— zinc concentrates: 10 g/t to 800 g/t