Cost of Stoping for Underground Mining
Expressed in another way, the sorting cost per ton of run-of-mine ore is 1.95/6.51 or $0.30. The cost of mining 1 ton of run-of-mine ore is $2.34. The cost of transporting ore from the mine to the mill on contract is $1 per ton. The milling cost of run-of-mine ore is taken as $2.85 and the cost of milling the sorted product is $3.22 per ton.