MINERAL PROCESSING

Our Innovation. Your Advantage.

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 BRADKEN KNOWS OUR BUSINESS
Bradken is a global manufacturer of differentiated capital and consumable
MINERAL PROCESSING products to the mining, transport, general industrial and contract manufacturing
markets with a sales and distribution network servicing customers around the
world.

As a leading heavy engineering company we can manufacture fully machined cast iron and steel products from
a mass of 0.5 kg (1.1lbs) to 25 tonne (55,000 lbs). We specialise in the design, manufacture and supply of
differentiated high quality mill, crusher and conveying wear products and services to the global mining and
quarrying industries. Our products include:

• Mill Liners and fasteners for SAG/AG Mills, Rod Mills and Ball Mills
• Crusher Liners for Gyratory Crushers, Cone Crushers and Jaw Crushers
• Engineered spare parts for Mills and Crushers
• Vertical Grinding Mill components
• Grizzly Panels, Chute Liners and Apron Feeder Pans

EXPERIENCE INNOVATION CAPABILITY

Bradken is renowned for
innovation, quality, reliability
and service.
Bradken is the market
leader for design,
manufacture and supply of
mill liners to the global hard
rock mining industry.
With over 90 years’ experience
in the foundry business, the
accumulated wealth of knowledge
and depth of expertise in our
workforce enables us to offer
optimised liner designs that
maximise operational effectiveness
and mill throughput, enabling our
customers to extract the most value
from their mills and crushers.
Bradken remains at the forefront
of mill liner development through
our firm commitment to innovation,
continuous improvement and the
development of new technologies.
Our highly skilled regional product
development teams ensure that
our design and testing capabilities
set new benchmarks for excellence
and offer significant advantages to
our customers.
With a worldwide network of
foundry and manufacturing
facilities and an established sales
and distribution network, our
geographical diversity allows us to
provide product, technical support
and advice, and exemplary service
to customers around the world.

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 MILL LINERS BULLNOSE INSTALLATION BENEFITS
Bradken Bullnose Discharge Cones are manufactured from superior
wear materials to extend wear life and maximise mill availability. The
Bradken is a leading supplier of high quality Bullnose Discharge Cone is designed with a key system to ensure
Mill Liner Systems to suit AG/SAG, Ball and the last discharge cone installed fits with ease and requires no
Rod Mills. By utilising the latest technologies, mating parts to be removed.
we aim to provide customers with an
advanced Mill Liner System that increases
mill performance and availability.
SUPER LINERS
The optimised design of Bradken’s range of By increasing the area of each head liner and reducing the number
Liner Systems offers a number of advantages of components Bradken Super Liners provide increased operator
including a reduced number of parts, fewer safety and minimised mill downtime by making liner change-outs a
relines, quicker change out and assembly faster and safer process.
and safer handling ultimately resulting in
a reduction to overall
maintenance costs.
FEED END COMPOSITE LINERS
White iron inserts encourage consistent wear on feed end liners
to match shut down cycles. This can extend the life of liners and
reduce the number of relines per year and ultimately minimise mill
downtime.

Bullnose

PEENING PAD OPTIONS

Reduces metal flow around grate slots, preventing them from
Discharge End Liner
closing up and maintaining mill throughput levels.
SAG MILL

Vortex

VORTEX AND SUPER VORTEX

Bradken Vortex Discharge End has been developed to encourage
early discharge of coarse product that travels down the pulp lifters
during each revolution. The Vortex improves product movement and
decreases the time to exit the discharge cone, reducing pulp lifter
wear and improving pulp discharge from the mill.

COMBINED CORNER LINERS

SAG Shell
Improves safety due to fewer loose liners.

Corner Liner

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 Bradken Bullnose® Discharge Cones are designed and manufactured from rubber and metal components
specifically for Mill Liner applications incorporating a design focused on ensuring the discharge cone
assembly can be installed in the most safe and efficient manner, whilst extending the life cycle and
producing maximum tonnes.
Bullnose Discharge Cones can be customised to suit your specific application and operating conditions
and by utilising the latest 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design) modelling software, Bradken is able to
ensure Discharge Cone efficiency.
The Vortex® Discharge End has been developed to encourage early discharge of coarse product that travels
down the pulp lifters during each revolution of the mill. Vortex is proven to improve product movement and
decreases the time to exit the discharge cone, reducing pulp lifter wear.
Bradken Vortex Discharge Ends are designed to improve uni-directional AG/SAG mill performance. Each
design is customised to suit your mill size, application and operating conditions.
The Vortex design can be fully retrofitted into an existing mill or supplied for new mills.

Bullnose Discharge Cones are manufactured from superior composite wear materials to extend wear life
of the liners, reduce weight and maximise mill availability. Each discharge cone design is tailor-made to
ensure safe handling, ease of installation and maximum performance.

Cast Lifting Lugs increase

safety and allow for full
reline machine adaptability
The Bradken Vortex Discharge System:
Oval head bolting for ease
of installation • Provides superior discharge performance for SAG and AG mills
The number of parts in your current • Is ideally suited to high throughput, high solids discharge mills
assembly can be halved when
replaced with a Bullnose system • Increases ore throughputs, and
• Increases pulp lifter wear life.

Unique Key system allows

the Bullnose to be installed
independently of all other parts
in the mill Throughput Advantage with Vortex
Radial

The full cast white-iron nose

and vanes maximise wear life

Material selection and

composition enables
extended wear life and Vortex
weight reductions

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 BENEFITS OF AN OPTIMISED DISCHARGE END
The Discharge End (DE) pulp lifter is a critical component of autogenous (AG) and semi-autog-
enous (SAG) grinding mills, having a significant impact on the throughput, efficiency and perfor-
mance of mills. Underestimating the importance of an optimised liner design in a mill can lead to
back-flow and carry-over processes which can ultimately result in high wear, poor liner life and
reduced mill throughput.
Installing a Bradken Vortex Discharge End and optimised liner design can lead to significant im-
provements in mill performance including:
CRUSHER LINERS
Bradken is renowned for providing world class quality and service to the mining and quarrying industries,
with our products specifically designed and manufactured to meet the increasingly demanding harshness
of these industries.
The optimised design of Bradken Crusher Liners for Gyratory, Cone and Jaw Crushers ensures an
uncompromising, reliable system delivering maximum performance and longer wear life. Bradken Crusher
Liners have been engineered with increased durability and strength to provide Bradken’s global customers
with a consistently higher level of productivity.

• increased hourly mill throughput

• increased average mill throughput (fresh feed), and
BRADKEN COMPETITOR
• increased average re-cycle load.

Mill Liner Life Performance

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25 Cone Crusher

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Middle Liner Middle Pulp Lifters Grate Outer Pulp Lifters

Gyratory Crusher Concaves

Mill Throughput Performance

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Cone Crusher
Bowl Liner
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 APRON FEEDER COMPONENTS

Through the use of advanced technology and material optimisation Bradken is able to supply long lasting
and high quality apron feeder components.

Replacing fabricated pans with cast pans increases overall performance and service life of the pans. To
maintain quality, each pan is press straightened and gauged prior to shipment. Sizes available range from
1 - 4 metres in length. Bradken pans have been proven under extreme working conditions below -20
degrees Celsius.

OTHER PRODUCTS
•• Fasteners for Mill Liners
•• Vertical Grinding Mill Liners
•• Engineered spares for Crushers
•• Chute Liners
Vertical Grinding
Mill Flight

Vertical
Grinding Mill

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Mill Digging Shoe
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