SORD Technologies

Key Points

  • Economic, environmental and safety benefits
  • Global resources previously inaccessible
  • Less exploration risk
  • Enriched ore to surface
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Competitive Advantages of SORDMiner

The SORDMiner technology offers a number of compelling economic, environmental and safety benefits, which would make it commercially attractive. These include:

Economic Benefits

  • Accessing resources currently inaccessible to conventional mining technology including previously uneconomic, inaccessible and environmentally protected deposits
  • Exploration Risk removed - SORDMiner will predominantly be used to mine historically documented deposits.
  • Low capital and operating costs
    • SORD Head projected cost sub $2million
    • Mineral sands operating costs could be as little as $1-3/t
    • Deep Lead gold extraction at $US80/oz
  • Low site establishment and decommissioning cost due to its limited entry ‘footprint'.
  • Reduced establishment and decommissioning times
  • Enriched ore delivered to surface
  • Elimination of the requirement for overburden removal, resulting in significant energy and cost savings per tonne of ore mined
  • Further enriched head grade during mining, as coarse material is screened out at the tool head
  • No change to water table no pumping costs