This autogenous mill is typically designed to grind ores and other particulate matter in various fields like building material field, chemical industry, metallurgy industry, refractory material sector, and so on. Besides, it can also be used to grind materials with little iron content. As its name suggests, it fan finish impacting and grinding materials totally by itself. So it is quite easy to operate. Moreover, it is easy and convenient to maintain, and is highly efficient. Semi-autogenous grinding uses a minimal ball charge in the range of 6-15%, and is primarily been used in the gold, copper and platinum industries but also in the lead, zinc, silver, and nickel industries.
The feed size to this mill is limited to the maximum size that can be practically conveyed and introduced into the mill. The mill product is either finished size ready for processing or an immediate size ready for final grinding in a ball mill, pebble mill, or a VERTIMILLTM. Wet grinding is accomplished in a slurry of 50 to 80 percent solids. AG/SAG mills can accomplish the same size reduction work as two or three stages of crushing and screening, a rod mill, and some or all of the work of a ball mill. Because of the range of mill sizes available, AG/SAG milling can often be accomplished