OPTIMIZATION OF THE SAG MILL CIRCUIT AT KINROSS PARACATU ...
circuit (a SAG mill followed by two Ball m ill lines). The Run of Mine (ROM) ore s ent o the SAG mill plant is transported from the open pit by truc ks and dumped to a griz zly.
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circuit (a SAG mill followed by two Ball m ill lines). The Run of Mine (ROM) ore s ent o the SAG mill plant is transported from the open pit by truc ks and dumped to a griz zly.
2006). The laboratory benchscale SAG mill reproduces operating conditions of a commercial SAG mill, in a closed circuit dry grinding environment. The ground product for the laboratory SAG mill is then submitted to the Bond ball mill work index test. The number of SAG mill .
Example of AG/SAG Ball Mill Circuit Wio Calculations [1] [2] ABstrAct Optimum use of power in grinding, both in terms of grinding efficiency and use of installed capital, can have a large effect on profitability. Mill operators have long used operating work indices to evaluate grinding circuit
YEARS OF OPERATION OF THE SAG/BALL MILL GRINDING CIRCUIT AT PHU KHAM COPPER, GOLD OPERATION IN LAOS. ABSTRACT The operation at Phu Kham commenced design and construction in early 2006 and was commissioned in May 2008. This paper will examine and discuss the project from the inception of flow sheet development
Lead Mentor: Brent Sullivan, Senior Metallurgist Challenge Description Mt Keith was originally designed as a 6 Mt/a concentrator in 1994. Subsequent expansions and upgrades have taken the nominal throughput to Mt/a, however the circuit can rarely maintain a feed rate that matches that. Mill throughput is a key driver for maintaining profitability at Mt Keith because of the low head grade ...
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rod millball mill circuit receiving closedcircuit secondary . The rod mill circuit could not be simulated, . The high cost of the SAG/ ball option is caused by the extremely high cost of the pancake SAG mill—R86 million alone.
Metallurgical ContentOpen Circuit GrindingClosed Circuit GrindingGrinding Circuit Process Control VariablesGrinding Operating Costs The 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 ...
receives combined ball mill a nd sub – screen deck size SAG mill discharge material via a 20/18 centrifugal pump running with a 1700 kW variable speed motor and gearbox.
Where the SAG mill/ball mill circuit is the bottleneck in the processing plant the pebble circuit can be a significant factor in limiting overall plant capacity. The pebble circuit recirculating load can be very significant (depending on the ore characteristics and SAG mill operating dynamics).
competent ores scheduled for 2017 and 2018. The Operation''s comminution circuit, which comprises of a semiautogenous (SAG) mill and two ball mills, each with 13 megawatts (MW) of installed power, was expected to be SAG mill limited when treating competent basement rock.
Model Predictive Control for SAG Milling in Minerals Processing | 5 Model Predictive Control on a SAG Mill and Ball Mills The solution for the SAG Mill is an adaptive controller which controls mill load using direct mill weight measurement or indirectly from bearing oil pressure.
considered, such as a primary SAG and secondary ball mill circuit where the individual stages would be ESAG and Eball, and the combined total circuit CEE would be Etotal. In all cases, the specific energy consumption is defined as the motor power consumed relative to the shell of the mill (
AG/SAG mills can accomplish the same size reduction work as two or three stages of crushing and screening, a rod mill, and some or all of the work of a ball mill. Because of the range of mill sizes available, AG/SAG milling can often be accomplished with fewer lines than in a conventional rod mill/ball mill circuit. A diagram of types of AG/SAG ...
When operating a grinding circuit (at Granny Smith) under a wide range of conditions: campaigning very competent underground ore followed by soft oxide, primary versus secondary crushed feed and finally singlestage SAG and conventional SAG, ball mill and pebble crusher (SABC) configurations. Economics changed and a review of the circuit performance including modelling and simulation .
SAG milling extends itself to many applications due to the range of mill sizes available. They can accomplish the same size reduction work as two or three stages of crushing and screening, a rod mill and some or all of the work done by a ball mill. SAG mills are also an optimum solution for wet grinding since crushing and screening in these ...
Morrell SMC SAG ball mill Model. This is a SAG or AG mill plus ball mill model that estimates the specific energy consumption (E SAG) using the equations of Morrell (2004). Testwork Required. The SMC™ test, stored in the "DWT" testwork table (SMC is a Drop Weight Test). Bond ball mill work index.
Advanced Controller for Grinding Mills: Results from a Ball Mill Circuit in a Copper Concentrator ... Results of using this advanced controller on a ball mill circuit operation in a copper ... throughputlimited ball mills and Semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mills. Given this large operational
The singlestage SAG mill circuit was shown to efficient operate ly on primary crushed, Wallaby Deeps underground material. With relatively coarse, competent feed and a reasonable ball charge, the variable speed SAG mill generated a product with sufficient fines content that the cyclones could manage without excessive recycle.
Dec 21, 2016· 2 parallel SAG Mills each feeding 2 parallel Ball Mills (4 total). Around 50,000 TPD total grinding circuit capacity.
The circuit consists of a 60 x 113 primary crusher, two 16 MW SAG mills and two 16 MW ball mills. All four mills are twin pinion with wound rotor motor and gearbox drives. Provision for pebble crushing is provided for primary (hypogene) ore treatment later in mine life. The derivation of the mill''s specific
USING THE SMC TEST® TO PREDICT COMMINUTION CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE INTRODUCTION As the SMC Test ® produces the JK parameter values A and b as well as estimates the JK parameter ta and crusher model energy matrices, the SMC Test ® can be used to conduct AG/SAG mill and crusher circuit simulations through the use of JKSimMet. Independent
proposed circuit consists of a SAG mill 40 feet in diameter and 25 feet in length (EGL), with an installed gearless motor of 24 MW and two 28 feet diameter by feet in length ball mills equipped with 22 MW gearless motors. The circuit would operate in SABCB configuration with two pebble crushers equipped with at least 750 kW motors.
A typical SAGHPGRBall mill circuit suggested by Patzelt et al. [6] is shown in Figure, where the pebbles from the SAG mill are crushed in the highpressure grinding rolls. It is a general observation that SAG mills are helpful for grinding where wide variations in the grindability of ores are experienced.
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