Comparison of energy efficiency between ball mills and stirred mills in coarse grinding

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 673-680

  Shi, Fengnian ^a   Morrison, Rob ^a   Cervellin, Andrew ^b   Burns, Fraser ^b   Musa, Fiesal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Newcrest Mining ^*  (Australia)

^c Energetics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comminution; Grinding

Indexed keywords

FINE GRINDING; FULL-SCALE OPERATION; GRINDING; KYRGYZSTAN; STRESS INTENSITY; ULTRA-FINE GRINDING;

BALL MILLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); GRINDING (MACHINING); MINING; SPHERES;

BALL MILLS;

EID: 66049096486     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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