Water in ball mill or grind dry?

[robzom27]

Hello everybody! I was just wondering everybody's setup for grinding ore. I have found a nice-looking vein that has a little fine gold and some silver. I have crushed it down to 20 mesh and have started grinding it down in my ball mill with 3/4-inch chrome ball mills. Is a dry grind acceptable? Should i add water? I'm grinding about 10lbs right now for a small experiment. I have used water before, but it makes such a nasty mess when retrieving the ore. Does anyone have any experience at this that would share their knowledge?

 

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[arizau]

Hello everybody! I was just wondering everybody's setup for grinding ore. I have found a nice-looking vein that has a little fine gold and some silver. I have crushed it down to 20 mesh and have started grinding it down in my ball mill with 3/4-inch chrome ball mills. Is a dry grind acceptable? Should i add water? I'm grinding about 10lbs right now for a small experiment. I have used water before, but it makes such a nasty mess when retrieving the ore. Does anyone have any experience at this that would share their knowledge?

I'm pretty sure standard use of wet grinding of ore is as a stage in a continuous feed circuit. eg. Coarse feed slurry in fine product slurry out for further processing. That was what was done at the mine I worked for.
Re screen your product and re run the oversize through the "ball mill".

Good luck.

 

[robzom27]

Thankyou sir, I figured that. I just didn't want to do it.... LOL!

 

[russau]

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