Metallurgy & Mineral Processing

Pyrometallurgy: Roasting, Smelting, Refining & Calcining + Electrowinning. All aspects of pyrometallurgical processes operations and maintenance are opened for discussion: Calcination, roasting, smelting and refining (flux, slag) as applied to any metal including but not limited to Au, Ag, PGM, Fe, Cu, Cr, Zn, Pb, Sn and the utilisation of ...

SAG Mill and Ball Mill Maintenance Metrics | All Member Open Forum

I don't have access to enough data to give you a real benchmark on mills, and you would want to compare your site to similar operations. I've mainly worked with Copper and Gold mining clients running two- or three-stage comminution (SAG primary and one or two Ball secondary, some sites with a regrind mill). Performance has varied …

Acoustic Sensing of Fresh Feed Disturbances in a Locked …

In a large-scale operation, feed ores are introduced into the AG/SAG mill in a continuous mode at a given flow rate to replace the discharging slurry. Nonetheless, the variations in the feed characteristics, typically hardness and size distribution, could cause sudden disruption to the mill operation. This would be challenging to detect in practice, …

Machine Learning Algorithms for Semi-Autogenous Grinding Mill …

Energy consumption represents a significant operating expense in the mining and minerals industry. Grinding accounts for more than half of the mining sector's total energy usage, where the semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) circuits are one of the main components. The implementation of control and automation strategies that can achieve …

Minding the Grind: Maintenance Options to Keep SAG Mills …

When SAG mill liner bolts loosen, break or stretch beyond limits, liner impairment and degraded performance are generally next on the agenda, followed by mill stoppage for …

SAG Mill Process Control

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A Comprehensive Guide to SAG Mill Operation

Working Principle of a SAG Mill. The rock and grinding media are placed in the mill and rotated, causing the grinding media to tumble and crush the rock into smaller pieces. The …

SAG Mill for Small Operation

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SAG Milling

The main drawback of SAG - high power consumption. To reduce power consumption, I think: The right determine of SAG feed size. This depends on the mill diameter and the ball size. Feed size necessary to take 80% of the maximum piece of ore that will crushed by the balls. For the big SAG more than 8 meters optimal feed size will be - 50mm.

Sag Mill Discussion Forum

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Choosing a SAG Mill To Achieve Design Performance

sized SAG mill may prevent production losses that would be many times greater over the extended start up period. This is the direct result of choosing the proper …

SAGMILLING

Grinding Circuit Modelling Documentation. This documentation describes the operating and underlying mathematics of the SAGMILLING grinding circuit modelling program. It …

Choosing a SAG Mill to Achieve Design Performance

Choosing a SAG Mill To Achieve Design Performance. John Starkey1, Principal Consulting Engineer Sami Hindstrom2, Manager, Grinding Travis Orser2, Project Manager, Grinding. Starkey & Associates Grinding Design and Process Engineering 336 – 268 Lakeshore Rd. E. Oakville, Ontario L6J 7S4 PH: (905) 465-7512 Fax (905) 844-5297.

Real-Time Simulation and Control of a SAG Mill

The discussion emphasizes on the SAG mill simulation model, and pro- posed control strategy. 2. REAL-TIME SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT The real-time environment is based on standard tools available in the market and widely used in the academia and industry. The real-time integration of the simulator with an industrial …

SAG mill and Pebble mill

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SAG Mill Grinding Circuit Design

AG mills (or SAG mills with low ball charges) are often used in single-stage grinding applications. Based on their higher throughput and coarser grind relative to AG mills, it is more common for SAG mills to he used as the primary stage of grinding, followed by a second stage of milling. AG/SAG circuits producing a fine grind (particularly ...

SAG Mill

The SAG Mill is a machine added by Ender IO. It uses Micro Infinity (µI) to grind (or mill) items into their crushed variants, like Ores into Dusts. The SAG Mill has four output slots; recipes can have 1-4 different outputs, with different chances of obtaining those outputs. Uniquely, the SAG Mill can use Grinding Balls made from various materials to increase …

SAG Mill | Autogenous and Semi-Autogenous Mills

Single stage SAG Mills are very beneficial in reducing CAPEX for plants with a staged throughput approach. When future tonnage is to be increased, the SAG Mill can feed downstream ball milling to boost capacity. Fuller-Traylor SAG/AG Mills range in size from 4.3m through 12.2m in diameter with powers as high as 28,000 kW.

Sag Mill Tripping on Earth Fault

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Difference Between Sag Mill vs Ball Mill

1. SAG mill is the primary tool for grinding. SAG mill is used before the other mills. Ball mill is a secondary, and it is used after the SAG mill. 2. SAG mill breaks the raw material into pieces for the further grinding. Ball mill is used to grind the pieces of raw material into. powder-like structures. 3.

Manual design of SAG/ball/rod mill foundations

Structural engineering general discussion Forum. Manual design of SAG/ball/rod mill foundations. 3. thread507-180521. Forum. Search. FAQs. Links. …

SAG Mill and Ball Mill Maintenance Metrics | All Member …

Can anyone share standard maintenance metrics benchmarks for SAG Mill and Ball Mills? What's good MTBF & MTTR targets as well as Maintenance Ratios? …

SAG vs. AG Mills: Understanding the Key Differences

SAG mills use a combination of steel balls and rock particles as grinding media, while AG mills use only the ore itself. Both types of mills are used for grinding ore in mineral processing operations, but SAG mills are larger in size and can grind larger quantities of ore. AG mills, on the other hand, are smaller and are typically used for ...

Semi Autogenous Grinding (SAG) Mill For Sale, Sag Mining

Learn more about the Intelligent Grinding Expert System. According to professional data sources, by far the largest SAG mill is 42' (12.8m) in diameter, powered by a 28 MW (38,000 HP) motor. While CIC is currently capable of manufacturing SAG mills with a maximum diameter of 21' (6.5m) SAG mill is being processed by us for Russian customers.

Optimum SAG Mill Discharge Density

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A CRITICAL REVIEW OF GRINDING DESIGN …

peak performance and balancing the power available in the SAG mill and ball mill, the transfer size must be measured and controlled. • The transfer size will be 500 …

Sag Mill Trip on Ground Fault

LRS for SAG MILL trips on qround fault. initially there was a flash around the rotor cable erae but was check and re-tight, Also check the moving and fixed contact in the LRS but found out that one phase ie one side of the electrode rod has chane colour indicating heat up. The holding bolts was check and tightened but when started the ILL it ...

SAG Mill Liner Design

Based on experience, mill-liner designs have moved toward more open-shell lifter spacing, increased pulp lifter volumetric capacity, and a grate design to facilitate maximizing both pebble-crushing circuit utilization and SAG mill capacity. As a guideline, mill throughput is maximized with shell lifters between ratios of 2.5:1 and 5.0:1.

PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION OF LARGE SAG MILL LINER …

Due to its strong lifting capacity and excellent grinding performance, the trapezoidal liner is widely used in the SAG mill. The structure of the trapezoidal liner is shown in Fig. 1, the main dimensions are: dip angle (tau), length of the top edge (L) and height (h).Dip angle (tau) determines the trajectory of the mediums in the SAG mill, …

SAG Mills Load Cells

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What's the Difference Between SAG Mill and Ball Mill

The biggest characteristic of the sag mill is that the crushing ratio is large. The particle size of the materials to be ground is 300 ~ 400mm, sometimes even larger, and the minimum particle size of the materials to be discharged can reach 0.1 mm. The calculation shows that the crushing ratio can reach 3000 ~ 4000, while the ball mill's ...

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Performance Improvement at SAG Mill through Lining …

To participate in the 911Metallurgist Forums, be sure to JOIN & LOGIN; Use Add New Topic to ask a New Question/Discussion about Grinding. ... We have evaluated more than 50 AG/SAG mills from different plants around the world, and their PI or equivalent databases. We simulated the operating parameters and were able to match the same …

Starter of SAG Mills with rotor resistance

Advantages of the wound rotor/SER drive are: 1. If the SER converter drive fails, the drive can be switched to fixed speed bypass - starting the usual way with the LRS. 2. The converter only needs to be sized for 15-20% of the total motor rating with associated reduction in floor space, air-conditioning etc.

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sag mill vibration. 07/19/2009 5:15 AM. I'm on a mining industry. we're having excessive vibration on the discharge end of our trunnion sag mill bearing. we already …

SAG Mill Operating Work Index

To participate in the 911Metallurgist Forums, be sure to JOIN & LOGIN; Use Add New Topic to ask a New Question/Discussion about Grinding. OR Select a Topic that Interests you. ... A SAG mill operates with a 10000 hp motor. Typical power draw is 80% of maximum. The 80% passing feed size to the mill is 5 inches and the mill discharge has …

Bearing pressure to mill load control

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SAG Ball Mill Monitoring | Emerson US

SAG / Ball Mill Monitoring. Condition Monitoring to Ensure Reliability for Critical Grinding Equipment in Mining . Today's mining operations must keep crucial milling assets online and running optimally, but variations in ore particle size, feed rate and moisture content, can lead to plugging, high vibration and machine bearing wear, and ...