Crusher Discharge Product Size & Shape

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A striking feature of the non-choking concave, is the character of the product. So far we have been dealing with crushers whose eccentric speeds are low enough to permit the material to fall, with each receding stroke of the active crushing member, the full distance allowed by the close CSS and open side OSS physical proportions of […]

Working Principle of Crushers

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On left is a showing of the “standard gyratory with straight concaves” is a section through any vertical, radial plane in the crushing chamber of one of the intermediate sizes of the crusher. In order to understand the crushing action in such a chamber it is helpful to consider the process as though each step took […]

Estimate Jaw Crusher Capacity

Formula to Estimate Jaw Crusher Capacity

Example capacity calculation of a 10″ x 20″ (250 mm x 500 mm): Pp = 2800 (2.8 SG) e = 0.2 (halfway between dolomite and sandstone) A = 250/1000 x 500/1000 Wj = 0.5 Nj = 225 = 2800 x 0.25 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 225 x (1-0.2)/60 = 525 kg/hr = 13 TPD vs 300 to 420 TPD —> […]

Gyratory Crushers

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The below image shows a sectional view of a typical gyratory crusher. This type of machine is, by virtue of chronological priority, known as the “standard” gyratory crusher. Although it incorporates many refinements in design, it is fundamentally the same crusher that first bore the name of “gyratory”; its crushing chamber is very much the same […]

Common Crushing Industry Terms & Vocabulary

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There are Crushing Industry Terms, Vocabulary as well as a number of expressions, peculiar to operation of rock crushing plants, have come into common usage among crusher designers and operators. Inasmuch as these terms are used rather loosely, and with a considerable degree of freedom as to their exact meaning, it is desirable to define a few […]

Secondary Gyratory Crushers

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The use of large primary crushers made secondary crushing necessary, but this department was taken care of nicely by the existing lines of standard gyratory machines. In commercial crushed stone plants, there was gradual increase in the number of products, but generally a sufficient demand existed for the coarser grades for ballast and macadam roads […]

Stamp Mill Animation

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When stamp mills are used for dry crushing, double discharge mortars are provided (see Fig. 50), and the screens are put low down, giving a small depth of discharge. These arrangements are necessitated by the difficulty of discharging the crushed ore from the mortar, the only means of doing this being the dashing of the […]

Calculating DWi from Axb Drop Weight Test Results

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The drop weight test is a common laboratory measurement used to determine the comminution characteristics of rock samples. A common metric derived from a drop weight test is a value “A×b”. Another common metric that is derived from the SMC Test™ variant of a drop weight test is a “Drop Weight Index”, abbreviated as DWi. […]

200 TPD Crushing and Grinding Circuit – Gold Leaching Plant

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I was asked to “size/design” the crushing and grinding circuit required to process 200 TPD of a mystery ore = without hardness or much sizing data. All I had were a set of videos showing how the current 50 TPD plant worked at feeding the gold leaching carbon adsorption plant.  I had to improvise a […]