hard rock milling operations for reducing primarycrushed ore to ball mill feed. In recent years, the trend has been towards largersized SAG mills with diameters of m (34 ft) and above, with the largest being m (40 ft) in diameter and drawing 20 to 22 MW (Jones, 2006). Mill liners provide the replaceable wearresistant surface within grinding mills; they also impart the grinding ...