A device for sorting lump ore containing minerals with low
magnetic susceptibility and non-
magnetic minerals, comprising a device for metered feeding of ore pieces to a conveyor, a device for electromagnetically irradiating the pieces, a
system for identifying
raw material pieces according to the criterion of the presence of a useful component, and a
system for separating the pieces into material streams, one of which comprises the useful component and another of which represents a non-
usable component, characterized in that the device comprises a 3D
scanner arranged above the
conveyor belt and designed to pre-identify the ore pieces according to the criterion of their geometric parameters, their spatial orientation, and their coordinate position on the
conveyor belt, the device further comprising a sorting controller, a sensor unit, a human-
machine interface,an
encoder and a
compressed air valve unit, wherein the sensor unit comprises a
signal processing unit, a
data interface and a sensor matrix in which sensors are arranged in a special coordinate grid designed to measure the
magnetic susceptibility of the pieces with paramagnetic properties, wherein each sensor is designed in the form of an
induction coil contained in a measuring oscillator connected to a
Schmitt trigger and a
signal processing unit connected to an oscillator by means of an activation key, wherein the sorting control comprises a computing unit, a valve
control unit and a synchronization unit, wherein the computing unit comprises a module for storing output data and constants, a module for measuring the geometric parameters of the pieces and for generating coil activation delays,a module for compensating the geometric dimensions of the pieces and their arrangement on the
conveyor belt, a module for eliminating the
mutual influence of the individual pieces and for measuring the electromagnetic background, a unit for
processing data and control signals for the sensor unit, and connection interfaces, wherein the synchronization unit comprises a digital
synchronization signal input, a command and
synchronization signal processing unit, digital
synchronization signal outputs, and a
data interface, wherein the valve
control unit comprises a command processing unit and a
data interface, and the human-
machine interface comprises an input / output (I / O) interface and a data interface, wherein the 3D
scanner is connected to the lumpy ore on the conveyor belt via an optical input,is connected via a synchronization input to the digital synchronization outputs of the synchronization unit and is connected at one output via a data interface to the unit for processing data and control signals for the sensor unit, wherein in the computing unit the module for storing output data and constants, the module for measuring the geometric parameters of the pieces, the module for compensating the geometric dimensions of the pieces and their arrangement on the conveyor belt, the module for eliminating the
mutual influence of the individual pieces and for measuring the electromagnetic background are connected to the unit for processing data and control signals for the sensor unit, which is connected to two data interfaces, one of which is connected to the data interface of the sensor unit,wherein the other data interface of the computing unit is connected to the output of the 3D
scanner and via a data interface to the I / O interface of the human-
machine interface, wherein in the synchronization unit, a data interface is connected to the data interface of the computing unit and to the command and synchronization
signal processing unit, which is connected to the digital synchronization signal outputs and to the digital synchronization input connected to an
encoder of the device connected to the conveyor, wherein the data interface of the valve
control unit is connected to a data interface of the computing unit and to the command processing unit, which is connected to the digital synchronization signal outputs of the synchronization unit and to the
compressed air valve unit,wherein the unit of digital synchronization signal outputs is connected via the
signal processing unit of the sensor unit to the sensor matrix which interacts with the lump ore on the conveyor belt, wherein a data interface of the sensor unit is connected to the
signal processing unit.