Ball Mills

By Greg Fenrick

A ball mill is a type of grinder used to grind materials into extremely fine powder. A ball mill rotates around a horizontal axis in a cylindrical device, which is partially filled with grinding medium and the material to be ground. Grinding material usually consists of the ceramic balls and stainless steel balls. Typically, industrial ball mills operate continuously, fed at one end and discharged at the other.

Ball Mill manufacturers:

• Arkan Vazin Co.
• Dove Equipment & Machinery Co. Ltd.
• FLSmidth Minerals (Fuller-Traylor SAG/AG mills)
• Funvesa
• Henan Hongxing Mining Machinery Co., Ltd.
• Henan Liming Road & Bridge Heavy Industry Co., Ltd
• Metso Minerals
• Outotec Oyj
• Polysius Corp.
• Precious Fabcast Pvt.Ltd.
• Shanghai Shibang Machinery Co., Ltd.
• Shanghai Zenith Company

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Grinding Media, Liner and Mill Drive Manufacturers:

• Bradken Limited
• CerCo LLC
• Columbia Steel Casting Co. Inc.Global Precision Ball & Roller
• Norcast
• PT. Growth Asia
• Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc.
• Siemens
• Tiger Industrial Ceramics Co., Ltd.
• Wuxi Geotec Geological Equipment Co., Ltd.

Grinding Consultants & Contractors:

• Hatch
• Jamieson Consulting
• Murchison Relines
• Sinclair Knight Merz

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• Comparison of UCS to Bond Work Indices (pdf)
• The effect of Ball Mill Charge Pressure and Impact on Grinding
• Keeping your ball mill rolling

If you’re interested in learning more about ball mills their importance in the milling operation, InfoMine’s EduMine offers the following courses:

• Grinding 1 - Fundamentals
• Grinding 2 - Unit Operations
• Grinding 3 - Circuits