The Saskatchewan Research Council’s full production-scale laser sorter. Image from SRC.
The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) announced Thursday the addition of a full-scale laser sorter to the services it offers to the mining industry at its Saskatoon-based facility.
SRC is Canada’s second largest research and technology organization with 1,400 clients in 16 countries.
SRC’s Minerals Liberation Sorting Centre is the only third-party, independent testing centre to offer bench-to-pilot scale testing and offers front-to-back solutions for mining industry clients in early exploration, later stage exploration, established mining, and post-mining stages, it said.
The sorting centre now offers full production-scale sensor-based sorting services via X-ray transmission and laser testing services that the SRC said no other independent testing centre in the world can.
“With the recent…


