COMPARISON OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF THE BALL BOND WORK INDEX DETERMINING

When designing concentrating plants, the selection of the technological comminution scheme for beneficiation, the type, quantity and size of the equipment, the determination of optimal grinding regimes and the calculation of equipment loads are carried out by preliminary studies of grinding in semi-industrial or laboratory conditions. Semi-industrial tests ensure the most reliable information for calculating loads for equipment. However, this requires a significant amount of ore samples, a lot of labor and the pilot plants. Fred Bond published an article in 1961, which, described the procedure for testing ores for a Bond Ball Index. This parameter is still one of the most demanded tools in the design, evaluation and optimization of ball grinding plants around the world.