Sorters shanplus43 The sorters have been moved from the Mill to Karratha. But Novo has permissions to process only around 20 to 30,000 t of ore at these locations. So these are not commercially viable operations at this point. I believe the process of permissions to deploy ore sorters for commercial mining is about 12 to 18 months long.
We should expect the sorters to be deployed for production by Q1 of 2024. My guess it is going to be about 5 sorters operating in parallel. The lead time to manufacture these sorters machines is about 8 to 10 months and so Novo should be placing orders by Q4-2022 or Q1-2023. Perhaps a bit too early to talk about production numbers.. but at the very least, we should have about 50,000 Oz from sorters in 2024.