Grinding control strategy on the conventional milling ...
There are six parallel conventional milling circuits at Palabora Mining Company. Each milling circuit consists of a rod mill followed by a ball mill in series. Crusher product (9 mm) is fed to the rod mill, and the water is fed in ratio to the ore feed mass. The rod mill discharge is pumped, without any further water addition, to the first ball mill. The ball mill discharges to a sump where ...