Dry And Wet Grinding Mineral Ore. Dry And Wet Grinding Mineral Ore. Comminution of the ore can take up to 3050 of the total operating costs of mining aldrich, 2013, jeswiet and szekeres, 2016.The most energy intensive process in the comminution is grinding, for which the operation cost increases with the fineness of the product wang and forssberg, 2007, jeswiet and szekeres, 2016.Generally wet ...