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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2012
Applicants:
Raymond Walter Shaw, Princes Hill, AU;
Barry Lavin, Churchlands, AU;
Inventors:
Raymond Walter Shaw, Princes Hill, AU;
Barry Lavin, Churchlands, AU;
Assignee:
Technological Resources Pty. Limited, Melbourne, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B03B 1/00 (2006.01); B07C 5/342 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/3427 (2013.01); G01N 33/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of sorting mined material for subsequent processing to recover valuable material, such as valuable metals, from the mined material is disclosed. The method includes a combination of selective breakage of mined material, for example, by using microwaves and/or high pressure grinding rolls, subsequent size separation, and then particle sorting of a coarse fraction of the separated material based on differential heating and thermal imaging.