
A Cerro Verde expansion used a similar flowsheet as the 2006-commissioned circuit to triple circuit capacity. The expansion circuit includes eight MP1250 cone crushers, eight HPGRs (also 2.4 x 1.7-m units, with 5 MW each), and six ball mills (22 MW each), for installed comminution power of 180 MW. and a nameplate capacity of 240,000 …