International Journal of Mineral Processing, 8 (1981) 6178 61 Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam Printed in The Netherlands MODELLING MINERAL SIZE REDUCTION IN THE CLOSEDCIRCUIT BALL MILL AT THE PINE POINT MINES CONCENTRATOR FINCH and J. RAMIREZCASTRO Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal (Canada) (Received January 10, 1980 ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377A ball mill is running in closed circuit with a hydrocyclone pack as shown in the diagram below. The feed slurry to the cyclones has a density of 1200 kg/m3, a viscosity of and a flowrate of 50 m3/hr. The cyclone pack is located 15 metres above the pump and is connected to the pump by 25 metres of Schedule 40 structural steel pipe.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The liberation results of the ball mill circuit feed (SAG cyclone UF) expressed in terms of the proportion of mineral particles with 90 liberation for galena, silver, sphalerite and quartz are presented in Fig. 3. This was conducted to establish if the feeds to the circuit were sufficiently similar, to allow for a valid comparison of the ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The simplest grinding circuit consists of a ball or rod mill in closed circuit with a classifier; the flow sheet is shown in Fig. 25 and the actual layout in Fig. 9. This singlestage circuit is chiefly employed for coarse grinding when a product finer than 65 mesh is not required, but it can be adapted for fine grinding by substituting a bowl ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The reference point is a conventional ball mill circuit in closed circuit with cyclones operating at 250% circulating load and having 38% of fine material reporting to cyclone underflow, resulting in a classification efficiency of 50%. This efficiency was chosen as an industrial practice "average" from the data presented in Fig. 6.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Within the circuit, two ball mills and two cyclone clusters are in the operation and only the secondary ball mill is closed circuited. The dimensions of the mills and the cyclones are summarized in Table 1, Table 2. Download : Download highres image (168KB) Download : Download fullsize image; Fig. 1. Flowsheet of the comminution circuit.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In this study, a binary matrix model of a closed circuit ball milling with a cyclone for the UG2 ore was presented. Conventionally these closed mill cyclone circuits operate with high circulating loads, between 200 and 400% and generally produce milled product at a specification of 80% less than 75 micron, which is required to liberate the PGMs.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377SAG mill circuits are typically operated with Ball Mills (BM) that are in closed circuits with a group of hydrocyclones as classifiers. The feed slurry to the cyclone (CF) contains 58% solids (wt.), the cyclone overflow (COF) slurry is 40% solids and the cyclone underflow (CUF) slurry is 70% solids. To operate mills and hydrocyclones at indicated slurry densities, water additions are made at ...
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