A number of papers have addressed different aspects of the problem, often demonstrating that neither grindability nor the Bond work index obey the simple rule of mixtures (Hosten and Avsar, 1998, Yan and Eaton, 1994, Iglesias et al., 1999, Öner, 2000, Ipek et al., 2005).For instance, Öner (2000) demonstrated that the grindability resulting …