MINED MATERIAL BULK SORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A system and method provide a plurality of flow paths for mined material and facilitates a variation in launch or discharge velocity of the mined material to control or vary the trajectory of the mined material into free space to follow respective flow paths on the basis of an assessed bulk characteristic of a segment of the mined material. The variation in velocity results in the segments having physically separated down stream flow paths. The separation in flow paths enables different segments of material with different characteristics to be sorted and separated into respective stock piles.