Hi, I am Kevin McNeil and I'm the CEO of Mount Carbine Mines EQ Resources. At Mount Carbine, we do extraction of tungsten from both a waste dump and a tailings, and soon to be an open pit.

One of the fortunate aspects of Mount Carbine is the rock is an incredibly clean rock and using the Tomra XRT sorters, we're able to take out any material that might have sulfuric material in it that may cause acid mine drainage in the future. 

But the waste rock that comes out of the Sorters is incredibly clean, and we're therefore able to use that in making all kinds of different quarry products from road bases to concrete aggregates.

And that adds a significant portion to our business selling these aggregates. And that provides what we are calling green aggregates or recycled aggregates. 

We're promoting ourselves in the business of the quarry business using these terms.

And again, it's a perfect example of a circular economy and everything that the government of Queensland is trying to accomplish.

One of the, the best things about the Tomra XRT is cost savings to the operation. 

Typically to take a raw material, crush it down, put it through our gravity plant, costs us about $14 a ton Australian. 

Now we take that same material, we pass it through the Tomra XRT sorter, and it only costs us about a dollar 50, we take 10% of that material and only apply the $14 to the 10% of that material.

Tungsten deposits historically have been very narrow vein high grade deposits, but by nature the veins are separated by waste. 

And because of the, the technology, we're able to take 2, 3, 4 of these veins in one package, mine them completely out, take them to the sorting plant, let the sorters do the work, let the technology do the work for us and take out all the rubbish.

And we're left with just the pure tungsten to send to the processing plant. 

And we do that very cheaply using the sorters. They're dry. No water usage. Very little power compared to what we use in the processing plant. 

So it's a real advantage to us to have these, and we've just purchased our second sorter, so we're going to be purchasing a third one this year.