In October 2025, Institute TOMS in cooperation with FINGRI company successfully commissioned a pilot vertical mill for fine grinding testworks.
Institute TOMS acted as a silver sponsor of the 21st MINEX Mining and Exploration Forum that took place in Moscow on 8-9 October, 2025.
Moscow International Mineral Processing Congress (MIMPC-2025) brought together leading specialists in the field of solid mineral processing, researchers, equipment and reagent manufacturers to share their experience, discuss issues and possible solutions.
Institute TOMS took part in the international scientific symposium Miner’s Week 2025 held by MISIS University, February 3–7. The specialists of Mining audit and consulting department delivered a report on advanced approaches to create geometallurgical block models and assess process variability of ores.
Institute TOMS was assessed and passed as consistent with the criteria of the national accreditation system.
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Accreditation to perform the Jar Mill test
In September 2021, the Metso:Outotec Jar Mill arrived and was installed in the Institute TOMS laboratory. The Institute’s comminution team was trained by M:O’s specialists and the lab was granted accreditation to perform the Jar Mill testing.
The data derived from the test allows a curve of specific energy vs. 80% passing product size (or other requested size fraction) to be generated, i.e. energy consumption required to grind material to a target size.
To run the test a 10-15 kg representative sample is required. Any coarse bulk material can be used as the test feed; it will be conditioned to a proper state by preliminary comminution operations.
Testing of fine products (finely ground ore, middling products, concentrates) is possible as well. Individual sample size and weight requirements will be determined depending on the material properties, specified targets and goals.
The mining industry makes use of different comminution technologies for secondary grinding duty, e.g., ball mills or high-intensity grinding mills. Nowadays, vertical stirred mills (Vertimill by M:O) are common in fine grinding applications. Since recently, vertical mills have been growing to become an alternative to ball drum mills within secondary and tertiary grinding circuits.
The bench-scale Jar Mill test using the Metso:Outotec procedure is aimed at direct sizing and design of commercial Vertimills.
