SOTKAMO SILVER: STARTS PILOT TESTING OF ORE SORTER
Press release June 2 2020, Stockholm 08:45 Sotkamo Silver has started the pilot testing of the Ore Sorting in May. The Ore Sorter has been supplied and successfully commissioned at the Silver Mine by Outotec and Tomra. The Ore Sorter uses X-Ray Transmission (XRT) technology to scan every feed particle and to identify the relative atomic density differences within particles and then separates desired high-grade particles from the barren material pneumatically. Sorting of marginal ore is done after primary crushing and it is expected to reduce roughly 50% of non-ore material going into the