Therefore, the comminution efficiency is significantly higher than in conventional crushing and ball mill grinding The HPGR comminution exhibits two extremely important features in regard to hydrometallurgical dump, heap, thin layer, vat or agitation leach operations: large amounts of micro-fracturing in the coarse (ie +100 mesh) material and
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