







IsaMill is a high-speed stirred mill that has been newly developed in the mineral industry for fine and ultrafine grinding. In this paper, a numerical model that is based on the discrete element method (DEM) was developed to study particle flow in a simplified IsaMill. The DEM model was validated by comparing the simulated results of …





The newest application for the IsaMill is in magnetite grinding. An M10000 is being installed at Xstrata Copper's Ernest Henry mine in Queensland, Australia, where a new circuit at the plant will use magnetite-rich tailings from the copper concentrator to produce a high-grade iron concentrate for export. An M10000 IsaMill will be installed in ...



The IsaMill™ reduces the energy, media and capital costs of grinding. It's incredibly efficient and intense. It focuses only on the particles that need grinding. The IsaMill™ produces greater power intensity than ball or tower mills. Today's IsaMill™ is also light. A modest volume of concrete and structural steel





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IsaMill™ Gets Lean With Smaller Design and New M7500 News update 30 January 2020 . As part of a dramatic cost reduction strategy and filling a gap in their range, Glencore Technology have taken the successful IsaMill™ fine grinding mill and introduced two significant changes.. First, it's been redesigned to reduce civil infrastructure costs up …



after ultrafine grinding with the IsaMill. Figure 3. Improvement in the zinc grade/recovery curve after ultrafine grinding. Of specific interest in the Mount Isa operations is the wide choice of grinding media available for use in the IsaMills. Mt Isa has variously used heavy media plant reject and lead or copper smelter slag for grinding media.



Despite becoming a popular fine grinding technique, IsaMill is still a new technology, and its optimum control and scale-up rely on experimental methods and industry experience, rather than the detailed scientific principles. ... Hardgrove mill and drop weight tester were utilized on granulated blast furnace slag, coarse cement, finished …



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The primary metric for measuring the grinding efficiency of the IsaMill™ is the specific energy (kWh/t) required to achieve a certain grind size (generally the 80% and/or 98% passing size of the discharge, P 80, P 98). For each condition tested in 2.2 Pilot-scale testwork, 2.3 Full-Scale (M1000 IsaMill™) testwork, surveys of the IsaMill ...



The IsaMill is unlike any other grinding mill1: • It is very high intensity – 300kW/m3, compared with typically 20kW/m3 for ball mills. This means it is easily installed in a small area. • It produces a very sharp size distribution in open circuit. This is due to 8 grinding chambers in series, closed with an internal centrifugal classifier.









Simplified IsaMill™ Grinding Mechanism modified (with permission) from (Glencore Technology, 2018). 2. Materials & methods2.1. Laboratory testwork. In 2010, a large IsaMill™ development testwork program was undertaken at the Netzsch Feinmahltechnik laboratory in Germany. The program utilised an M20 IsaMill™ (20 L …



The new design means that the required mill-and-access footprints of equivalently specified IsaMill and HIG mills are the same, while the IsaMill is roughly a third the height of the HIG mill. Technology Lead, Mike Hourn, said the new M7500 was a significant win for operations needing 1,600-2,200 kW of power but wanting the …





the grinding circuit. The IsaMillTM produces mineral particles with a high degree of residual strain in the crystal lattice, and a very high surface area. This results in very high defect density within the individual mineral grains, resulting in the mineral being extremely active toward oxidation (Harbot,





This make the efficiency and process benefits of inert grinding available to large and small tonnage operations. The IsaMill™ is used extensively in base metals (copper, lead, zinc and nickel), PGM, industrial applications and gold processing plants and is the optimum choice for: regrinding concentrates ; fine/ultrafine grinding ; mainstream ...





GSL' performs IsaMill™ testing using a Netzsch LM4 mill, which has the exact same internal dimensions and workings as the IsaMill M4. Signature plot testing using the IsaMill™ provides data on the specific energy required to reach product size and can be used in the design of IsaMill™ grinding circuits.



The structure of the mill is similar to IsaMill (Clark, 2007) and the key components are control panel, feed unit (feed hopper and rotary valve), grinding chamber and ... This paper presents the cement grinding results of the pilot scale test works performed with dry horizontal stirred mill where the effects of chamber diameter and …



Besides, it was suggested that, with this design of the mill for cement grinding purpose, 4 mm media size was the lowest limit as no difference in size reduction and energy efficiency were observed compared to 3 mm media size. – Finally, in contrast to IsaMill operations, the size distributions of the feed and products are parallel to each other.









The new generation of stirred mills like the IsaMill has fundamentally changed the economics of fine grinding. This has made them enabling technology for several existing and planned operations, and has opened new fields of processing in hydrometallurgy. These opportunities are made possible by the unique combination of features of stirred …



Fine Grinding as Enabling Technology – The IsaMill Pease, J.D. (1), Young, M.F.(2), Curry, D.C. (1) (1) Xstrata Technology (2) Xstrata - Mount Isa Mines Introduction The new generation of stirred mills like the IsaMill has fundamentally changed the economics of fine grinding. This has made them enabling technology for several existing and planned


