Crushing SAG Mill Critical Size Material
Operation of the original semi autogenous grinding circuit at the plant (Figure 1) has shown that the two small ball mills were not being used efficiently. Totaling 1300 installed hp, they increased the capacity of the basic SAG single stage circuit by only 40 mtph, thus leading to an incremental power consumption of almost 25 kwhr/mt, which compares unfavorably with the 13 kwhr/mt average