Geochem QA/QC and cutoff tools

What are your go-to resources (templates, notebooks, plugins) for multi-element QA/QC and cutoff grade sensitivity when rolling a maiden resource? I’m evaluating a Cu–Au skarn with about 2,300 1 m composites, using pyrolite+pandas, pXRF screening, and CRMs, and I’d love pointers to open dashboards or scripts that speed bias plots, outlier handling, and cutoff scenario curves.

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I’ve had cleaner pXRF bias estimates by fitting a Deming (orthogonal) regression to lab vs pXRF using “CRMs” to set the variance ratio, then bias-correcting before the cutoff sensitivity; with 2,300 1 m comps it’s quick in scipy.odr: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/odr.html… Small caveat: for low-grade Cu in skarns the slope can drift, so I bound the fit above the pXRF LOQ to keep the cutoff curves stable.

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Quick win: run bias and outlier checks in clr space (pyrolite makes it easy: https://pyrolite.readthedocs.io/) and use a robust Mahalanobis/MCD pass to tag oddballs before you build cutoff curves — it makes the spider plots less twitchy. Building on @clarkson_j57’s calibration idea, a tiny Streamlit+Plotly panel can live‑update tonnage–grade–metal vs cutoff from your cleaned composites — want a minimal template?

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