Mining Equipment Blog

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Granite processing plant

Jaw crusher for granite crushing: Jaw Crusher is widely used in granite processing plant. It is suitable for primary and secondary crushing all kinds of mineral ores and rocks with compressive strength less than 320 MPa.

Impact crusher is used for granite primary, secondary, fine crushing plant. It is widely used for sand and rock producing in the industry of roads, railways, reservoir, blasting of rock for processing and so on.

The portable crushing plant is not limited by the crushing place, and reduces high material transportation cost. The portable crushing plant can crush materials on site or work nearly. So, it is widely used in the industry of mining, metallurgy, building materials, traffic, and water conservancy facilities and so on. The portable crushing plant is the best crushing plant for granite stone quarry.

Vibrating screen is the granite screening machine used to screen out the suitable particles size. According to the different size of crushed stones and sands, choose the right screen cloth.
Granite crushing plant

In the granite crushing production lines, we can choose the right granite crushing machine according to the capacity. The granite stone crushing plant could be placed in concrete building or shed or open space. The usual crushing plants are as follows: 30-50tph, 50-80tph, 80-120tph, 120-200tph, 200-300tph, 300-400tph, 400-500tph.

We here recommend three proposals about the granite complete crushing plant:

Proposal 1: vibrating feeder + primary jaw crusher + secondary impact crusher + vibrating screen + belt conveying system + control system

Proposal 2: vibrating feeder + primary jaw crusher + fineness jaw crusher + impact crusher(optional)+ vibrating screen + belt conveying system +control system

Proposal 3: vibrating feeder +primary jaw crushers + cone crusher + fine impact crusher(optional)+ vibrating screen + belt conveying system + control system

In the above proposals, the main difference is the secondary crusher: using impact crusher, or using fineness jaw crusher, or Compound cone crusher. According to the fineness of the finished products, choose the right crushing machine to make up the complete granite crushing plant.
Granite aggregate manufacturing

In the construction aggregate production line, granite is crushed for manufacturing building aggregates and artifical sands.

SBM is a famous granite processing equipment manufacturer in China, and offer mining equipments, crusher, screening machine for granite quarry plant for producing aggregates and sands in USA, India, UAE, Canada, sri lanka, Italia, UK, Afghanistan, Angola.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The ores and minerals' crushing process

Stone Crushing  Process includes vibrating feeder, jaw crusher, cone crusher, impact crusher, vibrating screen, belt conveyor, electric controlling system and dust catcher etc. The designed capacity is from 50t/h to 500t/h. To meet customer’s specific requirement, we can make different design to meet various needs.

Crushing process does not happen by itself and it is not reversible. The external force must overcome the internal cohesion between particles in the rock. The cohesion, even for the same rock, differentiates greatly. It depends not only on the nature and structure of crystals in the rock, but also on the deficiencies of the crystals. These deficiencies may be macro-or micro-cracks. Due to the presence of cracks in the crystal, the connection between crystals becomes weak.

In stone crushing plant, jaw crusher is used as primary crusher machine, when big stones are crushed smaller after jaw crusher, they are transferred to impact crusher or cone crusher for secondary crushing, then go through the stone shaping machine for getting cubic size. Using screening machine to screen out the suitable building aggregates, while the unsuitable stones return to the crusher machine for re-crushing. The series of Jaw Crusher has the features of high crushing and even product size ratio. It can be used to crush material, whose compression strength is not more than 320Mpa.

Impact crusher is mainly used in secondary crushing. It can crush various rocks, high efficiency, easy maintenance, and cubic shape of the products. Impact crusher is widely used in mining, highway, and construction.

The series of cone crusher is used for crushing of ores and rocks, the advantages are: reliable structure, high efficiency, easy- to- adjust and economical.

SBM is a professional stone crushing machine manufacturer in China, located in Shanghai, and supplies, designs stone crushing plant for building aggregates and artificial sands. SBM can also supplies all types of other quarry equipments, coal crushig plant, gold mining equipment, aggregate crushing plant, concrete crushing plant for quarrying with reasonable price in Nigeria, India, New Zealand, Europe, Pakistan, Zambia, South Africa and other countries.

Friday, March 16, 2012

The installation of Ball Mill

The Ball Mill is and industrial grinding mill, through its installation, the client should pay attention to many things such as the installed base and safety issues.

Installed base:

1.The Ball Mill should be placed on the basis that has the appropriate height from the ground and strong steel concrete.If the foundation is sinking slightly, the level must be balanced.If not, the Ball Mill should not be installed.

2.The barrel of Ball Mill should has a appropriate height from the ground, in order to convenient for the changing of the plate and the grinding mediums and the fastening of the plate screws.

3. The design of the Ball Mill's installed base to some extent could refer to the blueprint that supplied by the manufactures. However, it shouldn't use as a working drawing. During the installation, we should major look at the real installation environment.

Matters need attention through the installation :

1.Before the installation of the Ball Mill, the users should carefully check if the size of Ball Mill's each part fit with the drawing requirements and if the equipments were all in readiness.

2.Before the installation of every element and unit of the Ball Mill, they should have a careful examination. The users must clear up the all kinds of the wounds, protection oil, dust and foul on the surface of the machine, in order to make sure that the machine could running normally.

3.During the installation, the users should daub some thin oil on the sliding surface of the machine. The surface of the regular connection should daub grease.

4.During the installation of the Ball Mill, the users should make a adequate protection of the frication surface and daub the grease on it, meanwhile, users should also put the clean oilskin on the dedicated backplate.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

South Africa Grinding Mill

SBM is a grinding machine manufacturer in China, we export grinding mills to South Africa,India,Indonesia,Nigeria etc. Our grinding mill includes Ball mill, Raymond Mill, Vertical mill, Roller Mills…

MTM Trapezium Grinding Mill Introduction

grinding-plant-300x200The MTM Grinding Mill is called MTM Medium Speed Trapezium Mill. It is designed by our own engineers and technical workers basing on our 20 years’ manufacturing experience and absorbing foreign advance technology.

The grinder machine leading powder process in grinding mill industry, it’s pretty widely used in many countries as mining equipment to mill quarry, such as South Africa,  Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and plenty of other countries all over the world.

MTW Trapezium Grinding Mill Introduction

MTW Trapezium Grinding Mill is the latest grinding mill with the best technical level in the world; it owns many patented technologies such as internal thin oil lubrication system, arc-shaped air duct, and overall prick gear drive. The MTW Trapezium Grinding Mills are widely used as metallurgical grinding mills and mineral grinding mills all over the world.

Super Thin Grinding Mill Introduction

SCM Super Thin Grinding Mills designed by SBM are used for ultrafine grinding mills that absorb grinding mill technology advantages from abroad and domestic. With decades’ experiences, the SCM super thin grinding mill has reached the international level of ultra-fine grinding mills manufacturing. The output particle of ultrafine dust is so weeny that must be making you very exciting and feel incredible.

Coarse Powder Grinding Mill Introduction

The MXB Coarse Powder Mill is the ideal equipment with high performance and easy maintenance of coarse powder processing. It meets customers’ requirement in industrial mill and industrial grinding areas. The MXB Coarse Powder Mill based on our experts’ many years research experience in the milling industry and combined with practical application and then we have the world-class level in industrial mill and industrial grinding.

High Pressure Grinding Mill Introduction

High Pressure Grinding Mill is a newly kind of highly efficient grinding mill invented by Shibang for many years’ research and development of grinding mill. The patent product of our company is high efficiency and low energy consumption.Customers can have auxiliary equipments by oneself that enough to meet the needs.

Cement ball mill for sale south africa

Cement Mill is composed of feeding part, discharging part, turning part and driving part (reducer, small driving gear, electric motor and electric control). The quill shaft adopts cast steel part and the liner is detachable.

The turning gearwheel adopts casting hobbing process and the drum is equipped with wear-resistant liner, which has good wear-resistance. The machine is with stable and reliable working condition. Moreover, according to different materials and discharging methods, there are dry ball mills and wet ball mills for choice.

How Ball Mill Works

A Ball Mill grinds material by rotating a cylinder with steel grinding balls, causing the balls to fall back into the cylinder and onto the material to be ground. The rotation is usually between 4 to 20 revolutions per minute, depending upon the diameter of the mill. The larger the diameter, the slower the rotation. If the peripheral speed of the mill is too great, it begins to act like a centrifuge and the balls do not fall back, but stay on the perimeter of the mill.

The point where the mill becomes a centrifuge is called the “Critical Speed”, and ball mills usually operate at 65% to 75% of the critical speed.

Ball Mills are generally used to grind material 1/4 inch and finer, down to the particle size of 20 to 75 microns. To achieve a reasonable efficiency with ball mill, they must be operated in a closed system, with oversize material continuously being recirculated back into the mill to be reduced. Various classifiers, such as screens, spiral classifiers, cyclones and air classifiers are used for classifying the discharge from ball mills.