Circulating Load: Practical Mineral Processing Plant Design by an Old-Time Ore Dresser

摘要

Bob Shoemaker has probably designed and visited more processing plants than any millman around. And he took the time to write down much of what he learned. As he notes in SME's new book The Circulating Load: "…I found that the managers and mill superintendents of …plants were most hospitable in showing me their operations and freely answered any questions I asked. During these visits, I observed many clever ideas in plant design…and also many mistakes…" These ideas (and mistakes), from Shoemaker and others in Bechtel, were collected over the years in an in-house publication "published in the interest of fewer spills in the mills." The Circulating Load is a compilation of the best of those ideas, along with a generous helping of editorial comment by Shoemaker.