Rod Mill

Rod mill is grinding equipment, which is similar to ball mill. The difference between rod mill and ball mill is that the former is loaded steel rods inside but the latter is steel balls.

Rod grinder crushes stones with the help of pressure and impact of steel rods. When the steel rods hit against the ore, they crush from the big particles to smaller ones. It is linear contact between steel rods. Rod grinding machine can also be used in artificial sand making operations.

The main usage of rod mill: it is widely used in grinding a variety of ores, such as quartz sand and tungsten ore grinding process to prevent excessive grinding.

In the two-stage grinding process, grinding rod mill can be used in the first stage, when rod mill have large capacity and high efficiency. In some cases, rod mill can replaces cone crusher as crushing equipment.