RE:What's the usual recovery rate of silver from a sorter?In today's release BHS indicated 400 tons of sorted material and 300-400 tons of mined material. That will get the various processes going and will let the mine go into production.
BHS has done a fair bit of planning with respect to how it will mine additional tonnage. There are identified blocks inside the mine which will be taken as production ramps up. At the moment, think in terms of 10,000 ton blocks or 50 days production at 200 tons per day. I understand that several of these blocks have been identified.
I hope that, in the not too distant future, BHS will do some drilling to extend and expland it. Meanwhile, it is worth reading the 2018 43-101 Technical Report which gave an inferred estimate of 6 million plus ounces.