“…Some researchers have paid attention to the differences in the grinding mechanisms of ball and rod mills, which commonly results in the following variations: the shape properties of ground particles (Hicyilmaz et al, 2004;Ulusoy, 2008b;Ulusoy and Kursun, 2011), the residence time distribution (RTD) of particles (Gupta and Patel, 2015), the size distribution of ground products (Foszcz et al, 2018), and the flow characteristics of the tracer particles (dolomite, magnetite, and galena) (Abouzeid and Fuerstenau, 2012). AbouzeidFuerstenau (2012) reported that rod mill products have a narrow size distribution compared to those from a ball mill, which is partly attributable to the plug flow mode of the material transport in the rod mill and partly to the well-known bridging action of the rods.…”