Addition of pebbles to a ballmill to improve grinding efficiency
Most mining companies have opted for the 'safe' option of ballmills for secondary grinding. Loveday (2010) reported on batch tests in a laboratory ballmill (300 mm diameter), to investigate the replacement of a portion of the balls by an equivalent volume of small pebbles (crushed stone, 725 mm). At the optimum volume of pebbles (25% ...