Cyclo Mill for Fine Grinding Ore

The Cyclo Mill for Find Grinding Gold Ores

The KM-21 Impact Mill uses a rotor to mechanically accelerate the feedstock into stationary blocks. The shattered material is air swept out of the mill housing and into the cyclone. The cyclone sends the ground material into the collection receptacle and the dust is carried off to the dust collector. We have processing experience with many different kinds of materials. Some applications include: metallic ores (gold, silver), industrial minerals, powdered metallurgy and plastics, minerals, organic materials, rare earth and explosives.

When the Cyclo Mill is combined with a Falcon Concentrator, with a bowl for fines recovery, it is possible to fine grind the ore, liberating the fine precious metal particles for recovery in the Falcon Concentrator. The Cyclo Mill has Tungsten Carbide wear parts, to prevent wear, which is the major drawback on most impact mills, used to grind abrasive ores. Abrasive gold bearing ores, including quartz, and granite, have been reduced to 45 microns in the Cyclo Mill, and it may be possible to grind them to a even finer particle size. The advantage of a cyclo mill over a ball mill is speed. The cyslo mill will reduce in minutes, ores that would take many hours to fine grind in a ball mill. It is ideally suited to small scale production or pilot plant use.

The benefit of fine grinding gold ores is to liberate the fine gold particles and recover them in a inexpensive gravity concentrator, like the Falcon Concentrator, with a bowl specifically designed for fines recovery. Gravity concentration is usually the least expensive method to recover ore. This works great with oxide ores, but on sulfide ores, the Cyclo Mill has a benefit, also. One can fine grind the ore, either liberating the gold (in the case of pyritic gold ores where the gold has a fine coating of iron, or simply concentrate the gold bearing sulfides into a "Super Concentrate", with a high percentage of values, to be chemically processed further to liberate the gold. This method greatly reduces the quantity of concentrate which has to be treated chemically, or by other methods, which in turn reduces the cost of treating the ores considerably.

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