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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Table 3 Simulation results of the grinding circuit in semiserie 700 tpd 800 tpd Stream Solid Flow % Passing Solid Flow % Passing %Solids %Solids Rate, tph 75µm Rate, tph 75µm Ball Mill Circuit BM Discharge Cyclone Overflow Ball Mill 9x9 Circuit BM Discharge ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377However, the effect of each is difficult to quantify in practice as these two parameters are usually interrelated. Based on experience acquired over the years and the investigative work conducted by Bond, it was established that the optimum circulating load for a closed ball millcyclone circuit is around 250%.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The ball mill in closed circuit with hydrocyclones is an industry standard, and well known methodologies exist for equipment sizing, selection and design. ... of 4565% solids, typically used in ...
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 18203695377measure CSE is a size distribution for the mill feed and discharge. For the typical reverse configuration ball mill circuit (Figure 1), this is achieved by taking a sample of cyclone underflow and a sample of ball mill discharge, and then running a screen analysis in the lab. For forward fed circuits ( primary ball milling), a
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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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The concentrator flowsheet begins with three rod mills operating in parallel and in open circuit followed by three ball mills operating in parallel and in closed circuit with a bank of ten 10inch hydrocyclones. As illustrated in Figure 3, rod mill discharge and ball mill discharge are combined in the same sump and pumped to the cyclones.
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/mº, 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.
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 18203695377Closed Circuit Grinding FLOWSHEET #4. The trend in many of the large tonnage milling circuits is to completely eliminate conventional rake or spiral classifiers by going to two stage grinding with a rod and ball mill in series. The rod mill discharge goes direct to the ball mill and then on to a pump and hydraulic cyclone classifier.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377cyclone (Cylcone 1). See Figure 1 for a schematic of the process flow. The slurry stream is classified at Cyclone 1 with the overflow going to the flotation circuit. Cyclone 1 underflow constitutes the fresh feed to the second milling circuit that runs in closed circuit with its own cyclone (Cyclone 2). Ball mill 2 discharges to a sump where ...
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