An ore processing system is very different from a whole sorting system.
You appear to have stated "sorting system", and not "ore processing system".You do not need a sorting system until you have some significant auto-mining capability. Even a quarry is not enough to require it. Go at your own pace and do what you think is fun. If you start with thermal expansion, you can go a long way with just hoppers and connected thermal expansion machines.
What are the chances to get all the items? And what are all the items? There a list somewhere?
An ore processing system is very different from a whole sorting system.
to me Ore processing is just a sorting system that ends in machines instead of chests and barrels.
to me Ore processing is just a sorting system that ends in machines instead of chests and barrels.
guys how do you make a dark iron ingot? I don't see how to get one, neither do i see how to make the block of dark iron
Dark Iron
Burning an iron block with Wrath Fire will leave behind a Dark Iron block. This block can be uncrafted into 4 Dark Iron ingots. This metal appears to be Ender-aligned, and has a few good uses.
A sorting system has to handle a lot more inputs and probably includes more crafting and compressing loops. An ore processing system can be a handful of TE machines sitting adjacent to one another with hoppers. There's an implication of substantial complexity.
To me ore presscing we are talking large and mostly automated. Have a culster to TE machiens feeding each other is not an ore processing syetm to me. For me that is just how to build TE in early game.
You can run a quarry off of those with minimal infrastructure if you void your non-usables with just TE, emerald pipes, and some engines. Sorting machines are More™.
And I absolutely agree that generally sorting systems are a super-category of ore processing. I'm just saying that you can have an ore processor without having a sorting system and it can handle the output of a quarry reliably. On top of a few TE machines, some engines and 2 emeralds and a bit of glass give you everything you need to handle an ender chest backed by a quarry. It's just pretty low-fi compared to the epic complexity most people have.
You may not build that way, but for someone new to modded minecraft it's perfectly acceptable to start small!