SAG / Ball Mill Performance Optimisation
Global Met Tech are proudly partnered with Auday Mining to deliver exceptional quality Forged Carbon Steel, Cast High-Chrome, Ceramic Grinding Media products and associated metallurgical support services to the worldwide mining and minerals industries. This Exclusive Strategic Partnership combines critical service expertise and market leading product performance to provide our customers with cost – process - metallurgically optimised grinding media solutions and guaranteed return on investment.
Performance Optimised Milling Solutions
Global Met Tech are committed to providing customers with specifically optimised product solutions tailored to the requirements of their SAG / Ball mill technologies and applications. Our diverse steel grinding media product range includes ultra-high performance cast high-chrome and forged carbon steel balls specifically designed to suit the demands of varied mill duties and metallurgical requirements. Combining steel grinding media product expertise with specific comminution metallurgical experience allows our services team to deliver cost optimal product solutions whilst also meeting the particular process demands of customers SAG / Ball mill duties.
Optimisation of both grinding media selection and mill operating parameters or circuit configuration has huge value potential for mill operators. Global Met Tech offer distinct service suites for all major SAG / Ball mill circuits whether the duty is primary, secondary or tertiary. All Global Met Tech’s grinding media products and services are comprehensively industrially proven having been utilised by some of the worlds largest mining and minerals operations over the last decade.
Whether customers requirements are process specific or cost related Global Met Tech can guarantee value realisation through the optimisation service program, providing the following key benefits amongst others:
- Operating cost reduction
- Improved energy efficiency
- Increased production capacities
- Mill product P80 optimisation
- Reduced mill wear – increased uptime, reduced maintenance schedules
Valued Industrial Experience and Facilities
Steel grinding media is often one of the largest consumable expenses for mining and mineral processing operations. Steel ball product performance is directly linked to wear and consumption rates. Global Met Tech combine superior product performance with in-depth metallurgical expertise to deliver a service suite designed to optimise grinding media operational costs.
Global Met tech are fundamentally aware of the critical nature of primary – secondary SAG / Ball mill circuits as efficiency drivers for the entire process plant. These fundamental comminution processes are of paramount importance for plant capacities and metallurgical performance. Global Met Tech’s market leading service facilities and team of committed metallurgical engineers are key in ensuring the optimisation of SAG / Ball mill performance. Our service suites are designed to take a comprehensive approach to optimisation including key aspects such as classification performance, circuit configuration, as well as grinding media sizing and selection.
The effect of grinding media product selection on pulp chemistry and downstream metallurgical performance is fairly well understood. Grinding media wear has significant impacts on pulp dissolved oxygen contents as well as Fe ions in solution, pH and Eh values, all of which have significant impacts on downstream metallurgical processes especially froth flotation. Global Met Tech offer comprehensive metallurgical test suites that combines grinding media wear characterisation and optimisation with investigations into the effect on pulp chemistry and downstream metallurgical performance.
