SAG mills which are the primary grinding circuit, grind the crushed ore, the SAG mill’s overflow is fed the Ball mill, 10 to 20% of the mill feed is fed the Pebble Crusher; and the Concentrator grinding circuit operates in a closed cycle SAG mill slurry is pumped and is grounded in parallel Ball mills and classified through Hydrocyclones Today, autogenous grinding (AG) mills as large as 40ft in diameter with motor power in excess of 20 MW are being ordered and installed as producers look for higher production and economy of scale in their process plants Semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mills up to 44ft diameter with 35MW gearless mill SAG Mill Control: It Shouldnt be that Hard concentrator is a single line configuration, comprising of one 40 ft diameter × 22 ft long (EGL) SAG mill driven by a 24,000 kW gearless drive The SAG mill feeds two ball mills the largest volumetric capacity SAG mills in the world and represented the first 40 ft SAG mill in Peru (Garcia Villanueva, 2013 [1])Integrated advanced process control with a sag mill
Unlike a concentrator with multiple grinding lines, conducting SAG mill maintenance shuts down an entire concentrator, so there is a tremendous focus on OT CONCENTRATOR SAG AUTO DIRECTION CHANGE 7 OT SAG is a bidirectional type which means that the mill can operate in a clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW) direction Operating in one direction excessively causes uneven SAG shell liner wear reducing the grinding efficiency An improvement idea through processComprehensive Process Control Journey of Oyu Tolgoi The Nickel West Mt Keith Concentrator (NMK) has 2 parallel grinding modules consisting of one SAG Mill and one BALL Mill per module A third ball mill takes a split of feed from each module to assist maintaining a target product sizeGrindin' at the Mill investigating bottleneck in
Originally commissioned as a Fully Autogenous Grinding (FAG) circuit in 1997, preparations to convert the Katinniq Concentrator Mill to SAG had in fact commenced as early as 1999, but were halted owing to alternative process improvements which achieved up to 1Mtpa as early as 2000The mill produces copper and gold concentrate from mined ore through a process to separate valuable minerals from the impurities covering them The main steps in the process are crushing, grinding, flotation, and dewatering Crushing and grinding transform ore size into fine sand in order to release particles containing copper and goldPT Freeport Indonesia The ball mills, the second stage grinding equipment, are 79m in diameter and 136m long, each with two 7800 kW motors 52 magnetic separators are used in each of the processing lines Two concentrate thickeners, each 45 metres in diameter and four tails thickeners each 90 metres in diameterProcessing Citic Pacific Mining
OT CONCENTRATOR SAG AUTO DIRECTION CHANGE 7 OT SAG is a bidirectional type which means that the mill can operate in a clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW) direction Operating in one direction excessively causes uneven SAG shell liner wear reducing the grinding efficiency An improvement idea through process The mill will be driven by a Gearless Motor Drive (GMD) which at 280MW is equal to the largest grinding mill power ever used in the mining industry The SAG mill design is based on Outotec's proprietary grinding mill technology, developed over decades for maximum reliability and performanceOutotec presents the world's largest SAG mill The wet selfgrinding machine/semiselfgrinding machine is a kind of equipment which uses the ore itself to crush and grind The barrel has larger diameter, shorter length and larger feeding size, which can replace medium crushing, fine crushing and coarse crushing Production Process Generally, the amount of steel balls added from the mill is 23X of the effective volume of the mill, and WET SAG MILL topmie
Recent International Concentrator Startups Do and Don’ts for Effective Grinding Mill Design COMMINUTION ‘12 Capetown, SA David Meadows1, VP Global Process Technology Paul Scinto2, BEng, Metallurgist John Starkey3, Principal Consulting Engineer 1 In some instances, concentrator throughput may be limited by mine production bottlenecks, leading to increased specific energy and lower profitability Such a concentrator might consider reducing mill ball charges, temporarily shutting certain grinding machines or changing process settings (eg SAG mill speed) to reduce power drawTracking comminution energy and optimising grind BrainWave SAG mill is a unique control package using patented modelbased predictive adaptive control technology It is well known within the mining industry that effective grinding in a SAG mill depends largely on the loading of the mill A mill con taining too much material does not allow for adequate movement of the ore and balls within BrainWave: Control solutions for SAG mills
Two Stage SAG Grinding Circuits VS ABC Circuits Grinding facilities are arranged either as singlestage circuits, or in a twostage configuration with ball mills Another major concentrator, designed with an autogenous mill, ball mill, crusher (ABC SAG mill is usually used to grind large pieces into small pieces, especially for the preprocessing of grinding circuits, thus also known as primary stage grinding machine Based on the high throughput and coarse grind, AG mills produce coarse grinds often classify mill What's the Difference Between SAG Mill and Ball Mill Table 5 presents details of mill and screen specifications 1 li Fig2 The Proposed Nkomati main plant concentrator grinding circuit 1116 L Bradford et aL Primary Mill Trommel screen Doubledeck screen Pebble crusher Secondary mill Note TABLE 5 Mill and screen sPecifications 325" x 22' (20" Effective grinding Length) Fully Autogenous Mill (9 The development of the proposed milling circuit for
Starting and Stopping In starting the grinding circuit after anything but a very short shut spitars enough to clear the same packed on the tank bottom, start the classifier overflow pump, then start the classifier, and after that, the ball mill But don’t throw in all these switches at once Recent International Concentrator Startups Do and Don’ts for Effective Grinding Mill Design COMMINUTION ‘12 Capetown, SA David Meadows1, VP Global Process Technology Paul Scinto2, BEng, Metallurgist John Starkey3, Principal Consulting Engineer 1 Recent International Concentrator Startups Do and The wet selfgrinding machine/semiselfgrinding machine is a kind of equipment which uses the ore itself to crush and grind The barrel has larger diameter, shorter length and larger feeding size, which can replace medium crushing, fine crushing and coarse crushing Production Process Generally, the amount of steel balls added from the mill is 23X of the effective volume of the mill, and WET SAG MILL topmie
concentrator is a single line configuration, comprising of one 40 ft diameter × 22 ft long (EGL) SAG mill driven by a 24,000 kW gearless drive The SAG mill feeds two ball mills the largest volumetric capacity SAG mills in the world and represented the first 40 ft SAG mill in Peru (Garcia Villanueva, 2013 [1]) The mill will be driven by a Gearless Motor Drive (GMD) which at 280MW is equal to the largest grinding mill power ever used in the mining industry The SAG mill design is based on Outotec's proprietary grinding mill technology, developed over decades for maximum reliability and performanceOutotec presents the world's largest SAG mill Originally commissioned as a Fully Autogenous Grinding (FAG) circuit in 1997, preparations to convert the Katinniq Concentrator Mill to SAG had in fact commenced as early as 1999, but were halted owing to alternative process improvements which achieved up to 1Mtpa as early as 2000Evolution of SAG Mill Process Control at the Xstrata
Two Stage SAG Grinding Circuits VS ABC Circuits Grinding facilities are arranged either as singlestage circuits, or in a twostage configuration with ball mills Another major concentrator, designed with an autogenous mill, ball mill, crusher (ABC BrainWave SAG mill is a unique control package using patented modelbased predictive adaptive control technology It is well known within the mining industry that effective grinding in a SAG mill depends largely on the loading of the mill A mill con taining too much material does not allow for adequate movement of the ore and balls within BrainWave: Control solutions for SAG mills sections, such as secondary and tertiary crushing, ball mill grinding and classification The results showed that a combination of semiautogenous and ball mill grinding is an appropriate way of comminution circuit optimization Keywords: AG, SAG, ore blend, industrial experiment, concentratorIndustrial Grinding Estimation of Blended Ore from
In some instances, concentrator throughput may be limited by mine production bottlenecks, leading to increased specific energy and lower profitability Such a concentrator might consider reducing mill ball charges, temporarily shutting certain grinding machines or changing process settings (eg SAG mill speed) to reduce power draw Starting and Stopping In starting the grinding circuit after anything but a very short shut spitars enough to clear the same packed on the tank bottom, start the classifier overflow pump, then start the classifier, and after that, the ball mill But don’t throw in all these switches at onceHow to Operate a Grinding Circuit