Advanced color sorting for mining applications
Optimize mineral purification with precision color sorting, ensuring consistent high-quality concentrates from small particle sizes. Perfect for enhancing efficiency and reducing waste in your sorting processes.

Sorts and Pre-Concentrates Mineral Particles
The PRO Tertiary COLOR from TOMRA is an advanced optical sorting machine specifically designed to tackle the challenges of high-precision sorting in the mining industry. It operates by utilizing high-resolution line scan cameras and cutting-edge color selectivity technology that simultaneously processes material characteristics like size, shape, brightness, and color distribution.
This machine excels in sorting and pre-concentrating materials ranging from 2mm to 30mm particle sizes, making it ideal for applications in industrial minerals and metallic ores, including bauxite, copper ore, and kimberlite diamond concentrates. With a compact design and sophisticated air ejector valves, it ensures high throughput and consistent product quality while occupying minimal floor space.
The PRO Tertiary COLOR integrates seamlessly into your production processes, supporting continuous and automated operations. It offers the flexibility of connecting to TOMRA Insight, a cloud-based data monitoring system that optimizes plant efficiency by analyzing sorting data.
Available configurations are tailored to suit specific operational needs, and optional material compositions accommodate different environmental demands, ensuring durable performance in various conditions. The robust design couples efficiency with ease of maintenance, reducing downtime and operational costs.
Benefits
- Enhances product purity by precisely sorting and pre-concentrating particles.
- Optimizes plant efficiency through seamless integration and cloud-based data monitoring.
- Reduces operational costs with compact design and efficient air ejector technology.
- Increases output quality by processing multiple material characteristics simultaneously.
- Minimizes maintenance downtime with robust construction and easy accessibility.
- Applications
- Industrial minerals,Diamonds,Metallic ores
- End products
- Copper ore concentrate,Bauxite concentrate,Kimberlite diamond concentrate
- Steps before
- Crushing,Screening,Pre-concentration
- Steps after
- Quality Control,Further Processing,Packing
- Input ingredients
- material from 2mm to 30mm particle sizes,industrial minerals,diamonds,metallic ores
- Output ingredients
- pre-concentrated material,consistent premium product quality
- Market info
- TOMRA is known for its expertise in sensor-based solutions for resource productivity, particularly in recycling, food sorting, and mining industries, offering advanced technology to improve resource recovery and efficiency, enhancing sustainability and operational performance.
- Particle Size Range
- 2mm to 30mm
- Resolution
- High resolution for +2mm particles
- Sorting Technology
- Line scan cameras with LED illumination
- Sorting Characteristics
- Size,shape,brightness,color distribution
- Air Ejector Valves
- High performing
- Compact Design
- Small footprint
- Automation
- Cloud-based data monitoring with TOMRA Insight
- Working mechanism
- High precision color sorting
- Integrated steps
- Size,shape,brightness,and color distribution processing
- Air ejector technology
- High performing air ejector valves
- Camera technology
- Line scan cameras with high resolution
- Lighting technology
- State-of-the-art LED technology
- Automation level
- Cloud-based data monitoring with TOMRA Insight
- Particle size range
- 2mm to 30mm
- Abrasion resistance
- High
- Density/particle size
- 2mm – 30mm
- Corrosive resistance
- Standard
- Cleanability
- Easy to clean
- Biological compatibility
- Not required
- Material characteristics processed
- Size,shape,brightness,and color distribution
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Control panel type
- Digital
- Control panel type
- HMI with line scan cameras
- Integration possibilities
- Cloud-based data monitoring platform
- Compact footprint
- Small machine design