SABC Grinding Circuit
Brief Geology in Relation to Work Index Variation To understand the need for a SABC Grinding Circuit it is pertinent to briefly describe the geology. Gold mineralisation at Kidston occurs in the marginal areas of an oval breccia pipe. Gold and silver are disseminated within the breccias and veins formed after brecciation. The ore is […]
Effect of Grinding Media on Flotation Chemistry
The flotation behaviors of pyrite and pyrrhotite in a Hallimond tube were correlated with the galvanic role they developed in two- and three-electrode combinations with mild steel under non-abrasive conditions. These correlations substantiated the hypothesis that a coating of iron hydroxides, originating from galvanic interactions, lowered the flotation responses of sulfide minerals. However, interactions between […]
Poly-Met Mill Liners for Autogenous and Semiautogenous Grinding Mills
Over 25 years ago, SKEGA pioneered the use of rubber linings in grinding mills and rubber is today widely accepted and almost standard material chosen for Regrind and Secondary Mills. There are, however, only a few Primary Mills in operation with “solid” rubber linings because available materials and designs are often not cost efficient in […]
Corrosion During Ore Grinding
Ore grinding is a major cost operation for the mineral processing industry. The U.S. mining industry consumes more than 400,000 st of grinding rods, balls, and mill liners in wet grinding operations at an annual cost of $300 million a significant portion of the milling cost. A section of a commercial ore grinding operation is […]
Re-agglomeration in Fine Grinding of Coal
There is a growing interest in the use of fine grinding to produce ultrafine particles for applications such as direct firing of micronized coal. It has been long known that the difficulty of grinding increases dramatically with the fineness of the desired product. To some extent this is a direct consequence of the decrease in […]
Method How to Reduce Ball Mill Wear by Cathodic Protection
The present work was undertaken to develop a method to cathodically protect a ball mill to reduce materials loss from mill liners. The essential science of “Cathodic Protection” is to apply a sufficiently negative potential to a metal in a corrosive environment such that the anodic corrosion rate is reduced to a negligibly small or […]
Slurry Volume Hold-Up of Overflow Ball Mills
Figure 1 shows the head-on view of a typical overflow discharge mill including the definition of symbols and specific mill volumes to be used. In this discussion it is assumed that the overflow discharge mill being operated at steady-state will demonstrate a reservoir effect, that is that the Volume 1 of Figure 1 will be […]
Grinding Circuit Expert System Control – Artificial intelligence
The clear abstraction of application specific knowledge from computer instructions is fundamental to all expert systems. This property greatly simplifies the encoding of knowledge and allows expert systems to describe their line of reasoning. Provided first that a human expert can articulate his skills, the expert system can mimic his decision making. The label “expert […]
Grinding Media Corrosion
We determined the effect of common sulfide minerals on the corrosion rates of various types of ferrous alloy grinding media. Data obtained from this study will aid in determining the contribution of any electrochemical reactions between sulfide minerals and grinding media to the total grinding media consumption. Common sulfide minerals used in this study were […]
Turbo Milling & Ultrafine High-Purity Ceramic Powders
Objective Utilize innovative processing technology to prepare high-purity, ultrafine advanced ceramic powders with little or no contamination occurring during the milling proccss. Advanced ceramic materials made from these powders could substitute for high-temperature alloys containing critical materials such as chromium, cobalt, and nickel. Approach Modify and evaluate the Bureau’s turbomill, developed earlier to grind a […]