INTRODUCTION First Quantum's Kansanshi Mine and the Advanced Systems Group of SGS collaborated on the implementation of an expert system for the control and optimisation of a SemiAutogenous (SAG) mill on the sulphide grinding circuit. The primary objective was to increase SAG mill stability and to maximise throughput.

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Semiautogenous grinding mills SAG mills . Semiautogenous mills or SAG mills as they are often called can accomplish the same size reduction work as two or three stages of crushing and screening Often used in grinding at modern mineral processing plants SAG mills reduce the material directly to the desired final size or prepare it for the following grinding stages

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San Diego, California, USA Implementation of a SAG Grinding Expert System at Kansanshi Mine - Zambia van Zyl, F.*, Paquot, F.**, Metzner, *, Fouche, F.**, Gomez, A.* * SGS Mineral Services, Randburg, South Africa ** First Quantum, Kansanshi, Solwezi, Zambia Abstract: This paper describes the method and results of the advanced control system that was …

In order to improve the grinding process and realize optimal grinding, a new controllable and flexible belt grinding mechanism is designed and assembled in a special computer numerical control grinding machine, accompanied with a constant grinding force control system.

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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 …

Autogenous (AG) and Semi Autogenous (SAG) grinding mills are the conventional selection for large-scale grinding circuits. It is accepted that these forms of comminution are not the most energy efficient available. This efficiency combined with escalating energy prices, steel prices and the requirement to process larger, lower grade deposits has necessitated that better …

AG mills (or SAG mills with low ball charges) are often used in single-stage grinding applications. Based on their higher throughput and coarser …

IMPLEMENTATION OF A SAG GRINDING EXPERT SYSTEM AT BARRICK NORTH MARA 19 Introduction The Barrick North Mara Mine and the Advanced Systems Group at SGS collaborated on the implementation of an expert system for the control and optimization of a …

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Grinding is continuous and fully integrated with subsequent flotation operations. SAG or AG mills. The crushed products are ground in SAG or AG mills. The self-grinding machine can grind ore without grinding media such as iron ball, or steel rod, as long as the hardness of the ore is sufficient for the rolling ore to grind by itself.

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For the mining industry, our semi-autogenous (SAG) grinding mill uses a minimal ball charge in the range of 6-15 percent. It is primarily used in the gold, copper and platinum industries as well as in the lead, zinc, silver, and nickel industries. Autogenous (AG) grinding mills involve no grinding media as the ore itself acts as the grinding media.

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Grinding simulation of ore particles in a Semi-Autogenous Grinding (SAG) mill to optimize grinding efficency, reduce wear or evaluate design changes. The bui...

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Unlike a concentrator with multiple grinding lines, conducting SAG mill maintenance shuts down an entire concentrator, so there is a tremendous focus on minimizing required maintenance time; the reline timeline often represents the critical path of a shutdown (but typically does not dominate a shutdown in terms of total maintenance effort).

Then, systematic research is carried out for an industrial semi-automatic grinding (SAG) mill to explore the effect of particle shape. To reveal the advantage over the traditional spherical DEM model, the polyhedron-sphere (PH-SP) grinding system is compared with a pure spherical grinding system.

Phase One added incremental crushing and grinding capacity to the existing carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit, which includes an oversized SAG mill and gyratory crusher. For this expansion project, Kinross selected ABB to provide a 26 MW gearless mill drive system (GMD) for the mine's 40 ft SAG mill, as well as other drives, electrical infrastructure equipment and a long …

Powell, M,, Liner selection-a key issue for large SAG mill, International Autogenous and Semiautogenous Grinding Technology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B . semiautogenous grinding and high pressure grinding roll technology, Vancouver, September 25 - 28, – Partially incorporated into Chapters 4 and 6.

As the SAG mill enters a stable operation state, the grinding system's charging behavior in the PH-SP and SP grinding systems is different. As shown in Fig. 9, the shoulder and the head in the SAG mill containing polyhedral ore particles are slightly higher than that of the SAG mill containing only spherical particles.

* SAG mills are the machines with the highest reduction rate which performs crushing, grinding and washing together. It offers a much higher reduction ratio than 3-stage crushing and screening system. * Feeding material in the dimension of 200-300 mm, is reduced to d100: 2 …

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