Besides circuit magic or possibly other mods since you ' re going down that route , not really ! The way I ' d accomplish this is to have a filter inserter taking crushed stone off of a belt . Then , attach the belt the inserter is taking from and the one after it with a circuit wire . On the belt being pulled from , uncheck EnableDisable , and check Read belt contents . Set this to Hold . On the one after , set its condition to Crushed stone 0 . What this will achieve is let only ore past on that belt , and all crushed stone will be filtered out . Caveats of this solution If the crushed stone backs up , the ore won ' t flow past . Throughput will be severely limited by the speed of the filter inserter . For highspeed belts where you need high throughput , try adding more filter inserters to before those belts . Here ' s the full setup . is the belt being pulled from , and is the belt after .