Drawing and Engineering Review
We review mating surfaces and interface dimensions and assess material, heat treatment and manufacturing feasibility.
Metal Ores and Critical Minerals
Porphyry, stratiform, lateritic and placer deposits require different crushing, grinding and separation flowsheets, with corresponding limits on wear part materials.
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Copper mining
Large open-pit or underground mining → gyratory crushing → SAG/HPGR → ball milling → flotation; oxide ore heap leaching → SX/EW
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Gyratory liners, SAG liners, HPGR roll surfaces, pumps, hydrocyclones, flotation rotors and stators
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02
Iron ore
Dry crushing and screening for high-grade hematite; fine grinding → magnetic separation → filtration → pelletizing for magnetite
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crusher liners, screen panels, HPGR parts, mill liners, pumps, hydrocyclones and pipelines
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Gold and Silver Mining
Crushing and grinding → gravity separation or flotation → cyanidation/CIL; heap leaching; pre-oxidation for refractory ores
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crushing and grinding parts, grinding media, pumps, valves, tank linings and pressure oxidation slurry components
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04
Lead and zinc mining
Underground or open-pit mining → crushing and grinding → selective lead and zinc flotation → thickening and filtration
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Underground LHD GET, jaw plates, mill liners, pumps, hydrocyclones and flotation parts
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05
Nickel and cobalt
Sulfide ore flotation; laterite HPAL; saprolite RKEF
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crushing and grinding parts, slurry pipelines, autoclave valves, acid-service pumps and high-temperature kiln parts
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06
Bauxite and alumina
Open-pit mining → washing; Bayer grinding → digestion → settling → precipitation → calcination
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Washing screen panels, pumps, pipelines, mill parts, valves, thickener feedwells and high-temperature calciner parts
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07
Lithium
Spodumene DMS/flotation → roasting → leaching; brine evaporation; DLE
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crushing and grinding parts, low-contamination linings, kiln parts, acid-service pumps, brine pumps, valves and pipelines
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Manganese mining
Crushing → scrubbing → screening → dense medium or gravity separation → dewatering
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crusher tooth plates, drum liners, screen panels, dense medium cyclones, pumps and elbows
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Chromite and platinum group metals
Crushing and grinding → spiral chromite recovery → PGM flotation → tailings retreatment
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Mill liners, spiral concentrator parts, pumps, hydrocyclones, flotation parts and pipe linings
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Rare earth mining
Crushing and grinding → magnetic, gravity or flotation separation → acid roasting or leaching → solvent extraction and separation
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crushing and grinding parts, pumps, hydrocyclones, flotation parts, and acid-service kiln, tank, pump and valve components
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Tin and tungsten mining
Staged crushing and grinding → DMS, jigs, spirals or shaking tables → flotation or magnetic separation
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crusher liners, screen panels, jig and spiral parts, pumps and fine-grinding liners
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Uranium mining
Underground jet boring of high-grade ore; conventional crushing and grinding → acid leaching → SX → yellowcake; ISR
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Underground nozzles and pipes, mill parts, pumps, valves, acid-resistant linings and remotely maintained components
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13
Titanium and zircon mineral sands
Sand mining or dredging → wet spirals → magnetic separation → electrostatic separation → drying
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Pumps, pipes, cyclone and spiral parts, screen surfaces, ceramic or rubber-lined elbows, drying and conveying parts
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14
Diamond mining
Gentle crushing → scrubbing and screening → DMS → XRT sorting and recovery
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Diamond-preserving crusher parts, screen panels, dense medium separation parts, pumps, pipes and low-impact chutes
View Industry Solution →Energy, Fertilizers and Salts
From extraction to beneficiation, conversion and conveying, abrasion and corrosion often coexist. Select materials according to the process medium.
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Coal mining and thermal power
Open-pit or underground mining → crushing → dense medium separation or flotation → coal handling → pulverizing → boiler → ash handling
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Coal cutting picks, crusher teeth, screen panels, dense medium separation parts, grinding rollers and tables, pulverized coal and ash pipes
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Phosphate mining
Open-pit mining → washing or flotation → slurry transport → wet-process phosphoric acid → granulation
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Dragline buckets, pumps, pipes, screen panels, flotation parts, acid-service pumps and valves, granulator and dryer parts
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17
Potash and rock salt
Underground continuous mining → crushing and desliming → flotation, hot dissolution and crystallization, or electrostatic separation
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Mining machine cutters, conveyor chains, low-speed crusher parts, chloride-service pumps and valves, crystallizer parts
View Industry Solution →Cement, Building Materials, Glass and Industrial Minerals
Wear varies by process stage. Crushing can involve high impact, while fine grinding is more affected by fine-particle abrasion. Select materials for actual duty, including weight reduction, noise control and contamination limits.
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Cement and limestone
Quarrying → crushing → preblending → raw milling → preheating and precalcination → kiln → cooling → cement milling
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Hammers, blow bars, vertical mill rollers and tables, chutes, kiln end parts, grate plates and clinker crusher parts
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Aggregates
Quarrying → staged crushing → screening → sand making → washing → dewatering
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Jaw, cone, impact and VSI crusher parts, screen panels, chutes, sand washer blades, pumps and pipes
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Silica sand and glass
Sand extraction → scrubbing → desliming → classification → magnetic separation or flotation → dewatering → drying → batching
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Low-contamination pumps and pipes, PU or rubber screen panels, ceramic linings, agitators and dryer parts
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Gypsum
Quarrying → crushing → drying → grinding → calcination → mixing → forming → drying
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Soft-rock crusher teeth and hammers, mill parts, lifting and conveying parts, calciner and dryer parts
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Graphite
Crushing → flake-preserving grinding → multistage flotation and regrinding → filtration → drying → classification
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Low-contamination liners, fine-grinding parts, flotation rotors and stators, pumps, hydrocyclones and dryer parts
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Kaolin, clay and feldspar
Mining → blunging or scrubbing → screening → hydrocycloning → magnetic separation → filtration → drying or calcination
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Low-contamination pumps and hydrocyclones, screen panels, agitator parts, filtration parts and heat-resistant calciner parts
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Fluorspar, barite and talc
Selective mining → crushing and grinding → gravity separation or flotation → dewatering → micronizing
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Crushing and grinding parts, pumps, hydrocyclones, flotation parts and low-contamination micronizing parts
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Trona and borates
Underground or open-pit mining → crushing → dissolution or roasting → filtration → crystallization → drying
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Continuous miner cutters, conveyor chains, crusher parts, crystallization pumps and valves, alkali-service piping and dryer parts
View Industry Solution →Other Industrial Applications
Sugar, paper, powder processing, steel and road machinery also require material assessment by part construction, load, process medium and wear mechanism. Suitability must be checked for each industry's operating conditions.
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Sugar processing
Cane cutting → shredding → milling or diffusion → clarification → evaporation → crystallization → centrifuging → drying; beet sugar and refining routes considered separately
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Knives, hammers, grids, mill roll shells, scrapers, girth gears, pinions, juice pumps and screens, centrifugal baskets and bagasse boiler parts
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Pulp and paper
Wood preparation → chemical or mechanical pulping; recovered paper pulping and deinking; stock preparation → forming → pressing → drying → finishing; chemical recovery
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Chipper knives, refiner plates, pulper rotors and screen plates, pressure screen baskets, cleaner ceramics, doctor blades, fabrics, felts and recovery boiler parts
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Ultrafine powders
Pretreatment → mechanical, ring roller or jet milling → dynamic classification → cyclone separation and filtration → packing; wet stirred milling as a separate route
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Hammers, pins, liners, grinding rings and rollers, nozzles, classifier wheels, ceramic linings, cyclone elbows and rotary valves
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Iron and Steel
BF → BOF, or scrap/DRI → EAF → refining → continuous casting → hot rolling, cold rolling or coating → slag processing
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: Sinter grate bars, blast furnace charging parts, high-temperature water-cooled parts, continuous casting copper plates and rolls, mill rolls, guides, shear blades and slag processing parts
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Road milling and asphalt recycling
Cold milling → RAP crushing, screening and classification → hot or cold recycling → paving and compaction; in-place cold recycling or full-depth reclamation
Priority Wear Locations: Priority Wear Locations: WC milling picks, holders, milling drums, chamber liners, conveying parts, RAP crushing and screening parts, mixer paddles and liners
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Wear Parts Across Industries
Compare equipment and wear part applications across 30 industry process routes.
Priority Wear Locations: Use for: Comparing Industry Routes and Finding Equipment and Parts
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