Grinding in ball mills is an important technological process applied to reduce the size of particles which may have different nature and a wide diversity of physical, mechanical and chemical characteristics. Typical examples are the various ores, minerals, limestone, etc.
The applications of ball mills are extensive in mineral processing and mining industry, metallurgy, cement production, chemical industry, pharmaceutics and cosmetics, ceramics, different kinds of laboratory studies and tests. Besides particle size reduction, ball mills are also widely used for mixing, blending and dispersing, amorphisation of materials and mechanical alloying.