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Metso Vertimills®

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Introduction
Metso Vertimills® are recognized as the most energy-efficient gravity-induced mills in the minerals processing industry. With the challenge of diminishing ore grades and rising energy costs, Metso provides solutions that ensure the lowest total cost of ownership by focusing on energy-efficient comminution technologies.
Energy Efficient Technology
Comminution is a highly energy-intensive stage in mineral processing, accounting for up to 40% of total energy use. Metso's technological advancements in comminution circuits offer energy-efficient and cost-effective solutions, helping customers achieve maximum production and consistent recovery.
Advanced Solutions for Maximizing Energy Efficiency
Metso provides a comprehensive range of crushing, screening, and grinding equipment designed to maximize productivity and profitability. Their solutions include high-capacity, energy-efficient crushing equipment, dependable screening solutions, and a comprehensive line of grinding mills that offer up to 40% higher energy efficiency and 95% uptime.
Vertimill® Technology
The Vertimill® is a gravity-induced, vertical stirred mill that offers up to 40% energy savings and a 50% reduction in media consumption compared to traditional ball mills. It is capable of handling feed sizes up to 6 mm and grinding to a product size of less than 20 microns. The Vertimill® is suitable for secondary, tertiary, regrinding, fine grinding, and lime slaking applications.
Benefits of Metso Vertimills®
Metso Vertimills® provide superior efficiency with features such as internal controllable classification, reduced steel contamination, and minimized fines generation. They offer a modular design for quick installation, require less floor space, and have fewer parts, leading to longer wear life and easier maintenance.
Case Studies
1. Poltava Mining: Improved steel pellet quality from 62% to 67% by using Metso Vertimills® in the concentration line.
2. Miaogou Iron Mine: Transition from ball mills to Vertimill® VTM1500 resulted in increased grinding fineness, improved iron concentrate grade, and reduced silica content.
Services and Support
Metso offers a range of services to maximize equipment efficiency, availability, and longevity. These include process optimization, life cycle services, spare and wear parts, equipment upgrades, and maintenance and repairs. Metso's global distribution network ensures the availability of OEM parts, and their upgrades enhance safety and operational features.
The Metso Way
Metso focuses on creating value for customers through deep knowledge of their business environment, processes, and challenges. Their committed and competent team, along with innovative technology and services, helps customers achieve their objectives.
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Metso Vertimills® Most energy efficient gravity induced mill

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Metso is the global leader in comminution technology Energy efficient technology Minerals processing is changing. With diminishing ore grades and rising energy costs, ensuring that a plant has the lowest total cost of ownership is vital. Comminution of ore is one of world’s most energy intensive stages and accounts for up to 40 percent of the total energy used in mineral processing. More sustainable technologies & practices are required to make these hard, variable and low-grade ore bodies viable. Metso has an extensive history of technological development and is recognized as the world leader...

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Advanced solutions for maximizing energy efficiency Ensuring the accuracy and consistency of product size directly affects the profitability of your operation. Efficiently reducing ore size requires the optimum mix of world class equipment. As the leading supplier of crushing, screening and grinding equipment, Metso ensures that you have selected best technology, systems and solutions for your mining operations. Metso’s high capacity, energy efficientcrushing equipment delivers superior performance and maximized throughput for the most demanding mining applications. Metso’s high efficiency screening...

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A versatile and energy efficient solution Metso Vertimill® is the industry benchmark in gravity induced milling technology. Globally recognised as efficient grinding machines, they bring substantial improvement in profitability of concentrators. Up to 40% higher energy efficiency 95% or greater uptime 50% less footprint vs ball mill (In same application) Up to 50% less media consumption < 2 weeks to install < 85 db noise

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Metso Vertimills® Unlocking energy efficiency in fine wet grinding VERTIMILL® is Metso’s gravity-induced, vertical stirred mill. Its vertical configuration allows for large throughputs while maintaining a small footprint in your circuit. The VERTIMILL® can bring up to 40% savings in energy consumption in some cases, and helps in reaching excellent recovery rates by producing a sharper particle distribution. In a nutshell, Metso Vertimills® offer the most optimum equipment solution for the circuit. Over four decades of successful Vertimill® applications The Vertimill® is capable of handling feed...

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Why choose Metso Vertimills® ? Superior efficiency with field proven performance With overall efficiency and proven performance, Metso Vertimills® offer the lowest total cost of ownership in many applications. Improved process performance • • • • Internal, controllable classification Preferentially grind coarse material Minimize fines generation Reduced steel contamination Reduced media consumption • Less energy for grind • No impact grinding, less ball breakage • Vertical arrangement retains fine media Lower installation cost • Simpler foundations • Modular design for quick installation • Requires...

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Unified regrind solutions Rougher cells extract majority of valuable mineral from the fresh ore Scavenger cells capture remaining available valuable mineral Metso Vertimill® handles before grade improvement Metso MHC TM regrid circuit Cleaner cells improve grade product

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Delivering results Stable growth in steel pellets quality at Poltava Mining Improve pellet quality from 62% to 67% Challenge: Improve quality of steel pellets by increase the iron content in processing of low-grade ores with space constraints Solution: Metso provided a new concentration line, which included Metso Vertimills® for all flotation cells Result: Bring fineness of grinding up to 90% ground materials and are minus 33 microns. Overall, this improvement helped improve pellet quality from 62% to 67%. Read more: https://www.metso.com/showroom/mining/poltava-mining/ reduction in grain size...

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Delivering results A switch from ball mills to Vertimill® boosts Miaogou Iron Mine’s transformation energy savings Challenge: The mine’s original grinding circuit consisted of ball mills exclusively. Due to downturn in the iron & steel industry, Miaogou’s concentration costs were exceeding the price of iron concentrate, putting significant pressure on company’s operations. The original tertiary grinding fineness was -325 mesh with 71-73% passing. Iron concentrate grade was 65% and the average recovery rate 87% Solution: Introduction of Metso’s Vertimill® VTM1500 vertical grinding mill at Miaogou...

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Services built for performance Maximize efficiency, availability and longevity Spare and wear parts Crafted to the same strict specifications and standards as our equipment, our genuine parts ensure complete compatibility for seamless operation. Our global distribution logistics network ensure that Metso OEM spare and wear parts are available when you need them. Equipment upgrades and retrofits Improve your equipment’s productivity without the large capital investment. Our upgrades are offered as easy-to-implement packages or custom-engineered for your specific requirements, with the aim of enhancing...

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Through our knowledge and experience, we work with our customers to create solutions that enable them to attain their objectives. We call this The Metso Way, which focuses on creating value to our customers. The Metso Way Knowledge - We have deep knowledge about our custmers’ business environment, processes and challenges Our committed and highly competent people make the difference to our customers We create the technology and services required to meet our customer needs

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Subject to alteration without prior notice. Brochure no. 3758-07-18-EN-MNG © Metso Inc.

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