Ball consumption (1 reply)

Babacata
5 years ago
Babacata 5 years ago

Dear All,

I would appreciate your opinion, if you could give me some indication on our ball consumption at our factory, do you think that there is a room for significant improvement?  

I am attaching the basic data sheet of our zinc-lead mine/factory.

Bond work index

Abrasion index

Specific ore weight

Size of incoming ore in Mill in mm

Product

%

)

Mill diameter in meters

Ball consumption/processed ore - kg/tonne

Electricity consumption per processed 1 ton of ore

in kW/h

11.4

.26-.28

3,1 t/m³

35mm

 

 63% -74 µ

2.7 m

600 gramm/tonne

22 kW/h

Regards,

Boris

 

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David
5 years ago
David 5 years ago

if you want to reduce ball consumption, reduce your ore feed size. 35 mm is large https://redesign.911metallurgist.com/typical-average-grinding-ball-consumption/

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