Engineering, Commissioning and Operation of a Stirred Mill in the Arctic Circle
*S. Simard1, L. Racine1, F. Desilets1, G. L’Écuyer1 F. Robichaud2, A. Gelinas3, J, Bournival3, D.J. Reid4, and D.Roy4,1Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited Meliadine Mine Suite 879 Rankin Inlet, Canada X0C 0G0 (*Corresponding aut...
14-Nov-2025
TRANSFORMATIONAL FLOWSHEET: UNLOCKING ENERGY AND WATER SAVINGS
*Fisher Wang1, Erich Dohm2, Serhat Onol3, Evgeny Zhmarin1, Drew Hobert21Swiss Tower Mills Minerals AG Haselstrasse 1, 5400 Baden, Switzerland (*Corresponding author: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 2Eriez Flotation 1901 Wager Road, Erie, P...
14-Nov-2025
The Versatility of Stirred Milling in Innovative Comminution FlowsheetsThe Versatility of Stirred Milling in Innovative Comminution Flowsheets
*B. Foggiatto1, H. Mclver1, G. Ballantyne1, P. Thorn², A. Paz², & E. Zhmarin²
¹ Ausenco Services Pty LtdLevel 6, 189 Grey Street, South Brisbane QLD 41...
26-Feb-2024
Ballantyne, Foggiatto, Staples, Lane
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
Vertical stirred mills are more frequently being applied at coarser grinding duties as a replacement for ball milling. This trend is being driven by reductions in footprint and operating cost...
20-Jul-2021
M. Sherman, A. Collins
Presented at World Gold 2019
ABSTRACT
The ever changing demands of providing operating teams with grinding circuits that meet their needs has resulted in equipment suppliers offering a broader range of grinding equipment and researchers investigating more efficient methods...
23-Jun-2020
Larson
Presented at the SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
Abstract
While stirred mills in regrind and fine grinding duties have become more accepted, there continue to be questions about the testwork used for scaleup and comparisons. One reliable reality check for any futur...
01-Jun-2020
S Nadolski, R Haycock, K Li, S Seiler, A Kumar
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
A comprehensive energy study was carried out for the Red Chris mill, which processes copper-gold ore at a rate of 30,000 tonnes per day (t/d) and is located in Northern British Columbi...
06-Jan-2020
P Lind, K Murray, A Boylston, & I Arce
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
Mineral processing consumes significant power, primarily in comminution, as well as significant amounts of water through hold-up in conventional tailings facilities. Reducing power and wa...
06-Jan-2020
R Diaz-Colunga, S Gomez-Hernandez and R Espinosa-Gomez
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
ABSTRACT
Fresnillo Plc (Fresnillo) is a Mexican Company owned by the “BAL Group”, focused on the production of gold and silver. It was established in 2008, initially consisting of three com...
24-Sep-2019
Design, installation, commissioning and operation of fine grinding technology at the Kevitsa Mine
B Nielsen, H Lehto & B Musuku
AusIMM Mill Operators Conference 2016
ABSTRACT
The demand for fine and ultra-fine grinding associated with the processing of more challenging, finer gra...
26-Apr-2017
Abstract
The comminution energy curve is a profoundly simple graphical technique that displays detailed operating efficiency information for industrial comminution processes. The database underlying the methodology has recently more than doubled, to now contain a substantial fraction of the interna...
31-May-2016
Abstract
As the stirrer speed directly affects the motion of grinding media, and hence the interactions with material particles to be ground, the rotation speed of a stirred mill is well recognised as one of the most important factors affecting the grinding performance.
In this work, the effec...
09-May-2016
Abstract
Stirred mill technology dates back to 1928 where the idea to use "an agitator and spherical grinding media" was presented. In the context of the mining industry, interest in stirred milling technologies has grown over the last 20 years where the typical observation reported in the literatu...
20-Mar-2016
ABSTRACT
The stirred milling of nickel laterites offers possibilities for improving liberation and selective size reduction of soft nickel-bearing minerals in laterites. Batch grinding tests were performed in a netzsch™ lME4 stirred mill on siliceous goethitic, goethitic, and saprolitic nickel la...
13-Aug-2015
Johnson
Abstract
In achieving the necessary liberation for separation of valuable minerals from ores, metallurgists have traditionally selected from the competing options for size reduction devices by making decisions based on various types of costs. While these costs remain important in s...
23-Aug-2006