CDE Asia Micrograder BT plant installed at Bhuj Gujarat helped Suraj Minerals achieve a five fold boost in recovery from their China Clay mine and better beneficiation and value for glass-grade silica sand from the same plant.With 10 mines spread over 100 hectares in the Kutch region in the Bhuj district in Gujarat, Suraj Minerals is one of the big names in China clay manufacture and export in the area. However, the organization was suffering from the steep competition and was being held back due to old and conventional methods of clay separation of mined material at their Alpha Kaolin mine in B. Their existing setup comprised a time-consuming and labor-intensive method of using blengars to make a slurry out of crude clay with silica and water. The slurry would then be fed into screw classifiers that would achieve only a sub-par separation of clay and sand. This led to a loss of 3-5% clay which got mixed with silica sand, harming both the quality of the clay and silica sand.