Report of Investigations 8503: Autogenous Attrition Microgrinding of Calcium Carbonate Minerals

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• Personal Author:
  Davis, Edward G. ; Hansen, John P. ; Sullivan, Gerald V.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  The Bureau of Mines' Tuscaloosa Research Center examined the application of autogenous microgrinding to calcium carbonate minerals. Treatment of minus 8-mesh Alabama marble resulted in a product 80 pct minus 5 micrometers (um) at a power consumption of 70 to 80 kwhr/ton. This study shows that coarse particles of calcium carbonate minerals are effective as the grinding media for the autogenous attrition grinding of these minerals. The minus 8- plus 30-mesh fraction is an effective grinding medium (sand) for particles smaller than 30 mesh. A 40-pct-solids slurry and a sand- marble ratio of 2.5 Appeared to be near optimum. For residence times above 13 minutes, products were greater than 80 pct minus 5 um and greater than 54 pct minus 2 um. Power consumption was uniformly low, ranging from 50 to 100 kwhr/ton of product depending upon the feed rate. One marble sample from Georgia was shown to be the most persistent grinding medium, with losses of less than half those of the other materials tested. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Calcium Compounds Minerals Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• ISSN:
  1066-5552 (print)
• Publisher:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Report
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  TURC - Tuscaloosa Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  28 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10006635
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c4ea971cc0ef00e5c207ccccde309ae22b7acc1e00fea8c1eec62ea197a9935dca688d9773aa518651a2fef9d699ace2c8a79b516ddd4de28f2a2e40cd9e4f6a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201797/cdc_201797_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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