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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBA brief comparison of AG and SAG mills given by (Tian et al. 2014): AG milling circuit offers higher power efficiency with high SG ores. AG doesn't need grinding media, a major operating cost item for SAG. ... SAG mills, however, are less energy efficient in handling harder and abrasive ores. As the ore bodies are steadily becoming more ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBJun 1, 2009 · The most common method of assessing comminution efficiency is to use the Bond operating work index ( Bond, 1952 ). Even though this method works fairly well for rod and ball mill circuits, it however, does not provide the same accuracy when applied to AG/SAG mills or the wider range of comminution devices such as HPGR, tower and .
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBNov 2, 2017 · Conventional crushing and grinding technologies such as jaw crushers, gyratory crushers, cone crushers, autogenous/semiautogenous grinding mills (AG/SAG mills), high pressure grinding rolls (HPGRs), rod mills, and ball mills are described in the wellknown mineral processing textbooks [21, 22]. Apart from improvements in machine .
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBNov 25, 2021 · In fact, in four of the surveys, the SAG mill was found to be more efficient at producing circuit product than the ball mill. Similar results have been seen consistently across all the surveys where this approach has been used, including circuits with AG mills, pebble mills, HPGR, stirred mills and ball mills with fine screens.
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