Key Focus Areas
- BMAT as an industrially relevant lab-scale method for grinding media evaluation.
- How BMAT simulates key wear conditions found in ball mill environments.
- Applications of BMAT for product benchmarking, quality assurance and performance comparison.
- Understanding wear mechanisms and interpreting test outcomes.
- Using BMAT results to support grinding media selection and optimisation.
- Practical examples from Molycop’s Chile Wear Research Lab.
Webinar Overview
Grinding media performance is a critical driver of mill efficiency, product consistency and operating cost. However, evaluating performance under conditions that accurately reflect industrial milling environments can be challenging. This Molycop Insights session, titled “Evaluating Grinding Media Performance Using the Ball Mill Abrasion Test: Capabilities and Applications”, will explore how BMAT provides a practical and technically robust approach to assessing grinding media behaviour at laboratory scale.Led by Carlos Garcia, Metallurgical Lab Engineer at Molycop, the webinar will explain the capabilities of BMAT, its relevance to grinding media performance assessment and its application in product development, quality assurance and customer-focused technical evaluations. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how BMAT can help identify wear mechanisms, compare grinding media products and support more informed decisions in comminution circuits.
What You’ll Learn
- What the Ball Mill Abrasion Test is and why it is relevant to grinding media performance evaluation.
- How BMAT helps replicate important aspects of industrial ball mill wear conditions.
- How test results can be used to compare grinding media products and assess quality.
- How BMAT can support grinding media selection for different operating environments.
- How wear mechanisms are identified and interpreted through laboratory testing.
- How Molycop’s Chile Wear Research Lab applies BMAT in technical evaluation and innovation work.
Who the Webinar is for?
- Metallurgists
- Process and plant engineers
- Grinding and comminution specialists
- Technical service and applications teams
- R&D and product development teams
- Quality assurance and laboratory teams
- Mining professionals involved in grinding media selection, optimisation and cost control
Date and Time
24 August 2026Locations and Times
- Chile (Santiago) 8:00 AM
- Brazil 9:00 AM
- Ghana / Côte d'Ivoire 12:00 PM
- Poland 2:00 PM
- Saudi Arabia 3:00 PM
- UAE 4:00 PM
- Jakarta 7:00 PM
- Perth / Manila 8:00 PM
- Melbourne 10:00 PM
- Toronto / Montreal 8:00 AM
- Nevada / Arizona 5:00 AM
Presenter
Presenter
Carlos Garcia
Metallurgical Lab Engineer
Carlos Garcia is a Metallurgical Engineer at Molycop. He holds a Mechanical and Materials Engineering degree from The University of Queensland, Australia. His work focuses on evaluating and understanding the performance of grinding media. Carlos, a member of Molycop’s Innovation team, oversees the Chile Wear Research Lab and is responsible for performance evaluation of grinding media using the Ball Mill Abrasion Test (BMAT). He also serves as Molycop’s Electron Microscopist, investigating microstructure, defects and damage mechanisms of the manufactured and/or tested grinding media products.