One of the factors which are usually difficult to be measured in mills is the grindability and distribution of feed under real situation and in a short time. In the condition of achieving a fast and convenient way to determine these parameters, the proper relationship between energy, hardness and particle size distribution can be obtained. Feed hardness is one of the most important factors in g...

Numerous research studies have been done to improve the gold recovery methods and to fi nd alternative processing techniques in the last decade. The main goal in this search has become to design an effi cient plant employing environmentally acceptable processes today. For this purpose, the application of environmentally friendly, no chemical included techniques like centrifugal gravity separato...

This paper presents a new approach for flotation circuit design. Initially, it was proven numerically and analytically that in order to achieve the highest recovery in different circuit configurations, the best equipment must be placed at the beginning stage of the flotation circuits. The size of the entering particles and the types of streams including pulp and froth were considered as the bas...

The ‘smarter’ approach to processing described in this paper is limited to the benefi ts of a more effi cient high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) circuit over a traditional semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) comminution circuit. The effi ciency challenge described concerns comminution circuit designs that are relatively risk averse and compliment current mainstream engineering practice. The HPGR eff...

The comminution process, particularly grinding, is very important in the mineral processing industry. Some characteristics of ore particles, which occur as a product of grinding process, have a significant impact on the effects of further ore processing. At the same time, this process requires a significant amount of energy which significantly affects the overall processing costs. Therefore, in...

Due to the importance of material classification issue in grinding circuits, the ‎performance of primary and secondary hydrocyclones in grinding circuit of Esfordi ‎phosphate plant was investigated by sampling within 7 days from feed, overflow, and ‎underflow‎ of these hydrocyclones. At first, the d80 of above streams samples were calculated by ‎the screening analysis. The results showed ‎that ...

Vertical roller mills (VRMs) are well-established grinding equipment for various tasks in the coal and cement industry. There are few studies on simulation of VRMs. In this research work, application of perfect mixing model for simulation of a VRM in a cement grinding plant was investigated. Two sampling surveys were carried out on the VRM circuit. The samples and data from the first survey wer...

Measurements are not readily available for grinding mills owing to the nature of the milling operation. State and parameter estimation for a grinding mill which forms part of a run-of-mine ore milling circuit has been implemented. These estimates may then be used in an advanced control algorithm. The estimation was done with dual particle filters as well as with a simultaneous estimation scheme...

Since early 2001, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) has successfully operated an ultra fine grinding (UFG) circuit to supplement its roaster capacity for the treatment of the refractory gold flotation concentrate. A second UFG mill was installed in 2002 taking the total UFG capacity to over 20tph while grinding to 11-12 microns and achieving over 90% gold recovery. A development program...