EganStreet Resources announce that it has identified an opportunity to optimise and significantly enhance the financial outcomes of its 100%-owned Rothsay Gold Project, located 300km north- east of Perth in Western Australia, through the application of ore sorting technology. The Company has received highly favourable initial results from ore sorting testwork completed on a low-grade stockpile from the historical underground mine at Rothsay, with the key outcome that the use of a Steinert Multi-Sensor Ore Sorter provides an opportunity to increase underground mine production (being fed to a similar-sized process plant), reduce the impact of dilution from the main ore-hosting structure at Rothsay, reduce life-of-mine processing costs and substantially enhance project economics. Ore sorting technology is increasingly being adopted across the gold mining industry in Western Australia, with highly encouraging results. Representative samples collected from the low-grade stockpile located adjacent to the portal of the historical Rothsay Gold Mine returned an average stockpile grade of 2.5g/t Au. This compares favourably with previous sampling of this stockpile in 2013, which returned results ranging from 2.7 - 4.1g/t Au. More importantly, the results demonstrated that the Steinert Multi-Sensor Ore Sorter was able to successfully reject the barren ultramafic material located in the hanging wall of Woodley's Shear. The PFS production target of 936kt grading 7.0g/t Au consisted of 43% planned mine dilution (or 400kt of the total 936kt production target). The ultramafic component of this planned mine dilution represents 59% of the total dilution (or 236kt of the total 936kt production target). The ability to substantially reduce, or potentially virtually eliminate, this hanging wall dilution may allow an increase in mine production, which will have a corresponding positive impact on underground mine productivity, operating costs and economics. Further test work will be conducted in the first Quarter of 2018 to confirm these encouraging initial results. The potential of the multi-sensor ore sorter is that underground mine production rates can be increased by 34% without any increase in process plant size. EganStreet Managing Director Marc Ducler said the application of ore-sorting technology represented a potential game-changer for the Rothsay Gold Project.