Published Papers

Selected papers from the conference have been published in Volume 19 Issue 15, a special Physical Processing of Ores and Minerals issue of Minerals Engineering. Papers can be downloaded from ScienceDirect.

Conference Proceedings CD-ROM

The conference proceedings CD-ROM is available by emailing Jon Wills. The CD costs £55 which includes postage and contains the following papers:

The effect of temperature on the corrosive wear of grinding mill balls in the presence of small amount of sulphide containing ore in laboratory testing
T. Chenje, P. Radziszewski, S. Chang and D. Hewitt (McGill University, Canada)

Issues on reliability of cycloconverter-fed high power gearless mill drives
J. Pontt et al (Technical University Federico Santa Maria, Chile)

Improving reliability of a load commutated inverter (LCI) - fed SAG mill drive
J. Pontt et al (Technical University Federico Santa Maria, Chile)

Modelling comminution patterns within a pilot scale AG/SAG mill
N. Djordjevic, R. Morrison (JKMRC, Australia), B. Loveday (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa) and P. Cleary (CSIRO-MIS, Australia)

Controlling a crushing stage with materials flow
E. Hulthén and M. Evertsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Improved accuracy of computer assisted crushing plant optimisation using measured data
P. Svedensten (Sandvik Rock Processing, Sweden) and C.M. Evertsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Evaluation of the batch press as a laboratory tool to simulate high-pressure roller crushers
J. van Schoor (Kumba Resources, South Africa)

Measuring characteristics of ballast material from vertical shaft impact crushers
M. Bengtsson and C.M. Evertsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Maximizing overall value in plant design
L. While, L. Barone (University of Western Australia, Australia), P. Hingston, S. Huband (Edith Cowan University, Australia), D. Tuppurainen and R. Bearman (Rio Tinto Technical Services, Australia)

Extended Grinding curves are essential to the comparison of milling performance
M. Powell and A. Mainza (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Spreadsheet-based simulation of closed ball milling circuits
A. Farzanegan (University of Kashan, Iran), M. Iranajad and S.M. Razavian (Amir Kabir University of Technology, Iran)

Discrete particle simulation of particle flow in IsaMill- effect of mill properties
C.T. Jayasundara, R.Y. Yang, A.B. Yu (University of New South Wales, Australia) and D. Curry (Xstrata Technology, Australia)

Product size distribution from stirred mills
A. Jankovic (Metso Minerals Process Technology Asia-Pacific, Australia)

Predictions of stirred mill performance using Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulation
M. Sinnott, P. Cleary (CSIRO-MIS, Australia) and R. Morrison (JKMRC, Australia)