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Application of ore sorting in overseas mines

Mar 12, 2025

In recent years, with the rise in international logistics costs, how to effectively reduce the logistics costs of ore transportation has become an important issue. Traditional simple enrichment methods, such as manual Sorting, can throw out some waste rock to a certain extent to improve the grade of ore, but they are inefficient and labor-intensive. The introduction of advanced optoelectronic intelligent sorting equipment can significantly improve this situation and provide more efficient and accurate pre-enrichment solutions.

 

MINGDER Optoelectronic Intelligent Sorting Equipment is an automated sorting system based on optical recognition technology that uses machine vision and artificial intelligence algorithms to quickly sorting ore. It captures the surface features of the ore through a high-speed camera and uses complex algorithms to analyze these image data to distinguish useful minerals from waste rock. This equipment can complete the sorting of a large amount of materials in a short time, greatly improving work efficiency. The working process of the equipment is as follows:

 

Ore enters the sorting room through a conveyor belt; a high-speed camera captures the ore image, collects the image and transmits it to the central processing unit through data, and identifies useful minerals through a preset model; the pneumatic device separates the target mineral from the waste material according to the instruction.

 

Technical parameters

Resolution: The industrial-grade high-definition camera can realize object recognition at the minimum level of 0.5 mm.

Processing speed: The hourly output can process up to 100 tons of materials.

Accuracy: The algorithm based on deep learning ensures a classification accuracy of more than 98%.

Adaptability: The equipment design takes into account the color, shape and reflectivity changes of different minerals and is suitable for various types of ores.

Reliability: Stable operation around the clock, with an average trouble-free time of more than 10,000 hours.

Energy consumption: Compared with traditional methods, energy consumption is reduced by about 30%, which meets the energy conservation and emission reduction standards.

Advantages of optoelectronic intelligent Sorting equipment

Efficient and accurate: Compared with manual inspection, optoelectronic intelligent Sorting equipment can complete larger-scale material screening in a shorter time with extremely low error rate.

Cost-effectiveness: Reduces the demand for human resources and reduces labor costs; at the same time, because high-grade ore can be selected more finely, unnecessary transportation expenses are indirectly reduced.

Environmentally friendly: Reduces environmental damage caused by excessive excavation, which helps achieve sustainable development goals.

Safety: Avoids direct contact between workers and dangerous working environments, improving operational safety.

Economic benefit evaluation

Cost savings: Assuming that a mining area needs to transport 100,000 tons of ore to the country every year, if the grade is increased from 30% to 40% using optoelectronic intelligent Sorting equipment, only 75,000 tons need to be transported, saving 25% of transportation costs. At the same time, labor costs are reduced.

Value-added benefits: Improving ore grade means higher market prices. For example, manganese ore prices usually rise with increasing grade, which directly increases sales revenue.

Return on investment: Although the one-time investment in optoelectronic intelligent Sorting equipment is high, considering the reduction in long-term operating costs and the improvement in production efficiency, it is expected that the investment can be recovered within a few months.

 

Application case analysis

Take a large manganese mine in an African country as an example. The mining area has abundant high-grade manganese ore resources, but due to its remote location, the cost of transportation to China is high. After the mine introduced MINGDER Optoelectronic Intelligent Sorting Equipment is an automated sorting system based Optoelectronics Intelligent Sorting Equipment, it successfully increased the manganese content in the raw ore by 10 percentage points, significantly improving the added value of the product. In addition, due to the reduction in the transportation volume of low-grade ore, the company can save about $2 million in logistics costs each year. More importantly, the efficient operation of the equipment enables the mine to complete more production tasks in a shorter period of time, enhancing the company's market competitiveness.

 

With the development of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things and big data, future optoelectronic intelligent Sorting equipment will become more intelligent, not only able to self-optimize working parameters, but also seamlessly connect with other mining equipment to form a complete smart mining solution. This will further promote the transformation and upgrading of the global mining industry and contribute to sustainable development.

 

 

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