PROCESSING

Getting it sorted

IMAGINE being able to put material across the belt and have each individual rock tested and sorted into ore and gangue. That is what a cooperative project between Tomra and Outotec believes it has proved.

Noel Dyson
A diagram of a belt type XRT sensor-based ore particle sorter.

A diagram of a belt type XRT sensor-based ore particle sorter.

The two companies have been working on ore sorting technology using a variety of sensors. Speaking at the recent MetPlant 2017 conference in Perth, Outotec vice-president dry comminution & sorting Bjorn...

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