The goal was to develop a highly efficient, high-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) crushing circuit for the newly constructed Metcalf concentrator at Freeport-McMoRan's copper mine in Morenci, Arizona. In approximately four years, the team went from a design concept to the largest fully operating HPGR in the world. ... of porphyry copper ore ...

2.1 Experimental Design. The experimental planning with selected key factor like operating gap (X 1), applied load (X 2) and roll speed (X 3) was designed by CCD method to obtain the optimum conditions for grinding the BHQ iron ore in HPGR.A full second-order polynomial model was obtained by regression analysis for three factors by …

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The feed material for the HPGR comminution tests was Polish copper ore from two divisions of processing plants of KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Taking into account that industrial comminution operations ...

From the results in Table 6, it is concluded that for the porphyry copper ore tested: The three-pass flowsheet using large (1.0 m) HPGR units (Flowsheet A) is the least efficient configuration of those tested; using a pressing force of 3.0 N/mm 2 is up to 5% more efficient than using 4.5 N/mm2 in such a configuration; The two-pass flowsheet ...

Crushing processes taking place in high-pressure grinding rolls devices (HPGR) are currently one of the most efficient methods of hard ore size reduction in terms of the energy consumption. The ...

These observations were developed and finally resulted in the high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) by Krupp-Polysius [14] in conjunction with Schönert. ... Otte [5] reported an increase of W i from 13.9 to 15.6 kWh/t for a copper ore and 9.4–15.6 kWh/t for a gold ore. Similar observations were made by Patzelt et al. [11].

The obtained results proved that the application of HPGR devices in given copper ore comminution circuit may improve the effectiveness of downstream grinding process what leads to improvement...

Crushing processes taking place in high-pressure grinding rolls devices (HPGR) are currently one of the most efficient methods of hard ore size reduction in terms of the energy consumption.

DOI: 10.2478/AMM-2014-0160 Corpus ID: 135810874; Influence of a High-Pressure Comminution Technology on Concentrate Yields in Copper Ore Flotation Processes @article{Saramak2014InfluenceOA, title={Influence of a High-Pressure Comminution Technology on Concentrate Yields in Copper Ore Flotation Processes}, author={Daniel …

With the advent of high-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) in the 1980's, the comminution process efficiency improved to some extent in terms of energy savings. ... For high-pressure HPGR copper oxide ore samples the percent of cracked particles increased from 40% to 80% as the particle size is decreased from 6.35 to 0.42 ...

It is calibrated on 18 pilot scale data sets. This paper unifies high-pressure grinding rolls crusher (HPGR) models of the working gap, mass flow rate, power draw, and centre and edge product particle size distribution models to produce a framework that allows the simulation of the equipment for process optimization and control studies.

Request PDF | Effect of the particle size and microstructure characteristics of the sample from HPGR on column bioleaching of agglomerated copper ore | High-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR ...

The latest technological improvements in HPGR rolls. surface design and materials by the manufacturers cou- ... obtained from two copper ore types belonging to a mining operation in northern Chile.

HPGR. HPGR or high-pressure grinding rolls have made broad advances into nonferrous metal mining. The technology is now widely viewed as a primary milling alternative, and there arc a number of large installations commissioned in recent years. After these developments, an HPGR based circuit configuration would often be the base …

Since the last three decades, high-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) as a type of roll crushers have been introduced to the ore dressing plants. Reducing energy consumption and the ability to crush ...

2. Description of a HPGR A HPGR is principally a horizontally mounted double-roll mill, equipped with hydraulic pistons on one side, pressing against the floating roll - the other roll being fixed in the frame. The main components of the machine are of course the rolls, the bearings, frame, pressure beams, hydrau-

This paper presents the commercial implementation of a novel comminution circuit with high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) followed by tower mill in a copper–lead–zinc ore dressing plant. With a throughput of 650 t/d, the comminution circuit comprises three stages of crushing by a jaw crusher, cone crusher, and HPGR as …

Four HPGR Polycom-24/17 manufactured by Thyssen-Krupp Resource, each equipped with two 2500 kW motors, Kessler M., Burchardt E., 2015. Mineral mining and processing industry increasingly fo-cuses on efficient grinding systems in recent years worldwide, mainly, because of growing energy cost and global water deficit.

According to the research on copper ore leaching, by using the HPGR, the copper increases for 60% and leaching ratio increase for 2% to 6% compared to traditional crushing process. ... When using HPGR on crushing the diamond ore, the rolls gap can be adjusted (e.g. 25mm) to ensure that the large diamonds won't be crushed. ...

High-Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) The HPGR technology has been identified as the most attractive grinding option, given the data obtained from the comminution testwork conducted in 2009 and in 2017–2018. …

the world's largest HPGR-HRC™ 3000 at Freeport-McMoRan's copper mine in Morenci Approx13.5% increase in energy efficiency over traditional HPGRs HRC™ 3000 crushed its 100,000,000th short ton of ore in < 3 years 8 9 Over 36% potential in energy savings Over 45% potential in operating cost savings OPERATING COSTS PER YEAR Electricity Media

Similarly, Chen et al., 2020a, Chen et al., 2020b found that HPGR can produce more and larger microcracks on copper ore particles than jaw crusher, which resulted in the copper extraction increased from 87.4% to 94.3% in the 30th-day shake flask test, while the leaching efficiency of copper ore increased by about 12.2% in the …

High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) In Comparison to SAG Milling Technology Presented by: Hassan Ghaffari, P.Eng. Raytcho Anguelov, P.Eng. ... HPGR Study 40,000 tpd Copper/Gold Ore Seabridge Gold Inc. KSM Project Trade-off Study + Pre-Feasibility 120,000 tpd Copper/Gold/ Moly Ore . Projects

The results show that the UG2 ore's response to HPGR crushing conforms to the response that has been observed in other ores, e.g., zinc ore, iron ore, copper ore, and gold ore [17,19, 45, 46 ...

Fortuna Silver Mines, which recently began commissioning and ramp-up at its $320 million Lindero gold project in Argentina, included HPGRs in its tertiary ore crushing circuit, based on testwork that indicated HPGR-processed ore would provide higher extraction rates than that obtained using conventional cone crushers or a vertical shaft impactor (VSI).

the example in fi gure 11, the results for simulating a HPGR process for copper ore with screening . ... High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) technology is accepted as an energy-efficient and cost ...

This article concerns the issues of modeling and the optimizational approach for the performance of ore comminution circuits. A typical, multi-stage comminution circuit was analyzed with the high-pressure grinding rolls unit operating at a fine crushing stage. The final product of the circuit under investigation was, at the same time, a flotation feed …

High-pressure grinding rolls (HPGRs) have struggled for acceptance into the hard-rock mining sector. CRITICAL HPGR PARAMETERS. HPGR roll diameters typically range from 0.5 m to 2.8 …

reported recently that the unit had operated for more than 8,400 hours and has crushed more than 34 million tons (t) of porphyry copper ore. said this solution has provided the Morenci mine with several …