MetPlant will be the venue for the launch of a new AusIMM publication, the Comminution Handbook, which is briefly previewed here and will be reviewed more fully later in the year. The handbook is edited by Professor Alban Lynch and includes contributions from comminution researchers, manufacturers and other specialists.
It has been many years since metallurgists have had a current, practical handbook of this kind, and this one includes contributions from the coal, cement, sulphide and industrial mineral industries, as well as mill manufacturing and modelling researchers. Its sixteen chapters are structured around the themes of characterisation, processing equipment, circuit design and process optimisation and control.
The handbook begins with mineralogy, and reviews mineral liberation theory and quantitative analytical tools before addressing machines and circuits. Chapters 4 – 10 address types of comminution and classification machines including tumbling mills, crushers, stirred mills and HPGR, then chapters 11 – 16 cover circuit design, process control and modelling. Unlike classic mineral processing texts, this handbook gives substantial attention to comminution in the coal and cement industries as well as hard rock mining.
- Comminution Handbook contributors
Alban Lynch
Dirk Bass
Katie Barns
Duncan Bennett
Hakan Benzer
Alain Broussaud
Marcos Bueno
Don Burgess
Hakan Dundar
Udo Enderle
Cathy Evans
Matthew Fitzsimons
Bianca Foggiatto
Bodo Furchner
Olivier Guyot
Cathy Hewett
Rick Hughes
Cliff King
Deon Kok
Greg Lane
Geoffrey Legrand
Aubrey Mainza
Eddie McLean
Gunter Metzner
Chris Morley
Steve Morrell
Joe Pease
Marc Revalor
Etienne Roux
John Russell
Glenn Schumacher
Spike Taylor
Walter Valery
Peter Walker
Thomas E Warne
Mark V Weaver
Jobe Wheeler
Bob Yench