Basic Ball Mill Grinding Circuit 911 Metallurgist
Grinding coarse ore in a ballmill is done by steel balls of three sizes (5, 4, and 3 inches); fine ore is ground in a tubemill by 2 and 1½inch balls or by flint pebbles or by hard, rounded mine rock such as quartzite. These grinding media wear to small sizes, and new ones must be added regularly to make up the weight.