Consumption of steel grinding media in mills A review
According to Moema et al. (2009), in some instances, media wear can constitute up to 4045% of the total cost of comminution. An estimated consumption of steel grinding media of around 600,000 tons in the 1980s already gives an indication of the scale of the problem (Malghan, 1982). Likewise, in the cement industry, as mills are supplied ...