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Crusher

Meaning in oil, gas & mining, with examples

/ˈkrʌʃər/nounCore term

In oil, gas & mining, crusher means: A machine that breaks large rocks into smaller pieces. Crushing is the first step in ore processing, before grinding.

In Turkish: kırıcı, konkasör

How it is used

Plants have primary, secondary and tertiary crushers. Common types are jaw, gyratory, cone and impact crushers. Operators talk about crusher throughput, feed size, blockages and liners. Trucks 'tip' or 'dump' ore into the primary crusher.

Example sentences

  1. The primary crusher was down for two hours because a large rock got stuck.

  2. Ore leaves the crusher at less than 150 millimetres and goes to the mill.

Common collocations

  • primary crusher
  • jaw crusher
  • cone crusher
  • crusher throughput
  • crushing circuit
  • grindingThe stage after crushing in which ore is ground into a fine powder in rotating mills so that the valuable mineral grains are freed from the waste rock.
  • oreRock that contains enough of a valuable metal or mineral to be mined and processed at a profit, for example iron ore or copper ore.
  • conveyorA machine with a moving rubber belt on rollers that carries ore, coal or rock continuously from one place to another, for example from a crusher to a stockpile.
  • haul truckA very large dump truck used in open-pit mines to carry ore and waste rock from the loading area to the crusher, a stockpile or the waste dump.

More terms: Ore Processing

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