FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION OF HPGR AT TROPICANA …

• Primary crushing – open circuit and stock pile • Secondary crushing – circuit closed with 42 mm screen o Screen underflow reports to HPGR o Screen oversize recycled to cone crushers for re-crush • HPGR – circuit closed with 4 mm screens o Screen underflow reports to Ball Mill o Screen oversize recycled to HPGR

Optimise your pebble crushing with HPGR |

With their high throughput and capacity for dealing with competent ores, High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) make ideal pebble crushers. The Enduron® HPGR's low operating costs (owing to its long component wear life and low specific energy requirements) makes it a competitive inclusion in pebble crushing circuits, offering short payback times.

Enduron® High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) |

With low energy consumption, low maintenance requirements, excellent throughput capacity and high availability, Enduron® high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) are a proven way to improve …

RAPID RAMP-UP OF THE TROPICANA HPGR CIRCUIT

screens (duty/standby) operating with a 90mm top deck aperture and 45mm bottom deck aperture. The oversize from both decks combines to feed the secondary cone crushers while the -45mm reports to the HPGR circuit. The secondary crushing stage comprises 2 x FLSmidth XL900Raptor cone crushers

Enduron® High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) |

Where HPGR technology has replaced traditional methods of crushing and grinding (i.e. SAG and/or ball mills), customers have seen energy savings of up to 40%, and substantially improved mineral liberation. The unique bearing arrangement of the Enduron® HPGR delivers market-leading bearing life and is designed to protect against premature failure, with proven …

A preliminary investigation into the feasibility of a novel HPGR …

In "conventional" crusher-HPGR circuits, such as Cerro Verde and Boddington, the HPGR feed moisture content is driven directly by the fresh feed moisture and the moisture content of the recirculation stream (wet fine screen oversize), in this AG-HPGR circuit the fresh feed moisture has no effect as all the material that reports to HPGR is ...

Introducing HPGR Crushers into a Russian Magnetite …

Plans • Original plan 32Mtpa to 42Mtpa by building new 4 railway tracks to double primary crushers, new secondary/tertiary building and line 5.

Metso on HPGR's leading edge

The HPGR's efficiency is achieved by inter particle crushing, ie the pressing force is applied to a material bed allowing for multiple interparticle breakages within the high pressure/fracture zone. This requires a void volume into which the breaking material bed can be compressed and also friction between the particles to allow for press force ...

HPGR

The largest HPGR Polycom in operation (Figure 5) using a maximum roll diameter of 2.2 meters is processing diamond-bearing rocks in Australia at a maximum feed rate of 600 to 800 mt/h with a top feed size of 150 millimeter (6″). This rock material is reduced in one pass to 57% -1 millimeter with a power input of less than 3 kWh/…See more on 911metallurgist

(PDF) THE CADIA HPGR-SAG CIRCUIT

the crushing circuit offer s a n opportunity to produce finer feed to the HPGR if linked in with screen changes. Crusher gap is typically 26 mm but is sometimes ru n coarser to balance the circuit ...

The effect of feed moisture on the comminution efficiency of HPGR circuits

HPGR screen surface or even in transfer chutes, bins and conveyors. ... This paper unifies high-pressure grinding rolls crusher (HPGR) models of the working gap, mass flow rate, power draw, and ...

High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR)

Plant Concept SAG Circuit HPGR Circuit Equipment 1 x SAG Mill 9.8 MW 1 x Secondary Crusher 750 kW 1 x Pebble crusher 450 kW 1 x HPGR 4.0 MW 2 x Ball Mills 5.6 MW each 2 x Ball Mills 5.6 MW each Screens and conveyors 0.5 MW Screens and Conveyors 1.5 MW Total drive capacity installed 21.95 MW 17.45 MW

High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR)

1 x Pebble crusher 450 kW 1 x HPGR 4.0 MW 2 x Ball Mills 5.6 MW each 2 x Ball Mills 5.6 MW each Screens and conveyors 0.5 MW Screens and Conveyors 1.5 MW Total drive capacity installed 21.95 MW 17.45 MW . Power Savings Installed Power Savings MW • Adanac Moly Corp 4.1 • Imperial Metals Inc. -4.4 ...

How HPGRs compare to conventional milling |

Offloading (S)AG Mills pebble crushing via HPGR Thanks to this intense pressure and wear resistant rollers, HPGRs are more effective pebble crushers than conventional cone crushers. Where significant build-up of pebbles in (S)AG mills can become a real bottleneck in meeting the required plant capacity, re-crushing of the pebbles is of great ...

HIGH PRESSURE GRINDING MOVING AHEAD IN …

gyratorycrushing, secondary conecrushing, and a Humboldt Wedag HPGR Type RP 16-170/180 (roll diameter 1.7 m, roll width 1.8 m) in place of a tertiary crusher operating in closed circuit with vibrating screens to recycle the oversize +7 mm fraction back to the HPGR circuit. The 7 mm undersize is fed to dry magnetic separation.

Trade-Off Realities in HPGR vs. SAG Milling—A Practical …

combine to feed the secondary cone crushers, while the -45 mm rock reports to the HPGR circuit. The secondary crushing stage comprises 2 x FLSmidth XL900 Raptor cone crushers, 600 kW each, which operate in closed circuit with the two secondary screens. The secondary screen undersize reports to the HPGR feed bin, which has 540 t live capacity.

High pressure grinding rolls HRC 8 HRC

HRC crusher automation HRC 8 and HRC 800 are available with Metso Outotec crusher automation which controls and monitors crusher and ancillary equipment helping to achieve the best performance and protection to the machine maximizing uptime and safety. Crusher automation is provided as a complete package, including fully automated hydraulic

Our Dynamic HPGR Technology for Mineral …

Used in mining applications for the last 30 years, HPGR technology has streamlined the transition between mineral grinding and crushing by accepting larger-sized particles compared to ball mills, and producing finer-sized …

HPGR: WHY SKEWING IS A REQUIREMENT FOR …

A second source of uneven feed to the HPGR can be segregation, where one side of the HPGR is mostly fed with coarser particles, while the other side receives more fines. Figure 3 shows a schematic illustration of feed segregation prior to the HPGR (Van der Meer & Maphosa, 2011). Similar to the impact of the uneven feed in the

Case Study of Dry HPGR Grinding and Classification in Ore Processing

Comparative grinding tests of two-stage closed HPGR with 7 mm and 1 mm screens and a final mill grind, and two-stage closed HPGR with a 7 mm screen and an air classifier cutting for final product ...

High pressure grinding rolls HPGR for iron ore, …

Significantly improve the efficiency crushing and grinding system, reduce electric cost and steel ball consumption in ball mill. Solid structure, wearable roll surface, high efficiency. Great crushing ratio, high availability, …

Video: Building the world's largest HPGR

Crushing circuits are known to be more efficient than traditional SAG milling circuits. However, in large operations, crushing circuits tend to have a greater number of lines and are more challenging to operate. ... The pilot plant included an HRC™ HPGR with 750 mm x 400 mm rolls, a primary wet screen, and a secondary wet screen. The HRC ...

Why HPGRs are revolutionising mill circuits |

Starting in the 1980's, HPGR was first successfully implemented in the cement industry and is now used across a wide range of mining applications. Today, there are more than 200 machines operating in the mining industry around the globe, on more than 150 sites. These energy-efficient grinding machines are mostly used for processing iron, gold, copper and …

Developments in HPGR technology

When applied to concentrators, HPGRs are in most cases operating in a closed circuit via wet or dry screens. Applications using HPGRs in quaternary mode in open circuit are also working successfully. The prime …

HPGR APPLICATION IN AUSTRALIA

HPGR product screen undersize P80 micron 2,000 5,000 3,000 6,000. Argyle D iamond Mine. ... circuit secondary and tertiary crushing (with HPGR in the tertiary stage), ball milling and .

HPGR—The Australian Experience

The process circuit at Argyle is essentially a large -scale crushing and screening plant pre- paring ore for subsequent diamond recovery. Comminution is undertaken down to a quaternary crushing level via conventional cone and HPGR crushers. Investigations car- ried out in the late 1990s indicated that additional diamond

Enduron HPGR Screens

200% recirculation load, resulting in high screen feed rates. The cut size of a typical HPGR screen range from 1 - 4mm. This requires much larger screens than those used in typical mining applications or attributed to other screen profiles. Shape The shape of a banana screen is perfectly suited to screening the conglomerated fines created by ...

Evaluating the performance of an industrial-scale high …

Closed with a flip-flow screen, the HPGR reduces the feed size from −12 to −1 mm, and the tower mill circuit produces a flotation feed with a fineness of 85 % passing 0.074 mm. ... This paper describes the commercial implementation of HPGR in tertiary crushing followed by a tower mill at a copper–lead–zinc ore dressing plant, focusing ...

A closer look at increasing HPGR efficiency through

The HPGR crushing circuit at the pilot plant includes two wet vibratory screens, primary and secondary, along with an HRC HPGR with 750 mm by 400 mm rolls operating in closed circuit, as shown in Fig. 3. The fresh feed to the HPGR crushing circuit is tertiary-crushed material with a top size of approximately 25 mm.

PEBBLE CRUSHING BY HPGR F.P. van der Meer …

include spilled balls, broken balls or scats exiting the mill or bypassing safety screens (Figure 1). PEBBLE CRUSHING BY HPGR. Page 5 of 12. Figure 1. Example of Aerofall ball retrieved after HPGR passage, cracked and dented by HPGR rolls. Tramp metal objects in HPGR feed will increase wear. Oversize objects, near or in excess of the