Wear of metals by ores is classified into three types -coarse abrasion (crushing), high-stress abrasion (grinding) and low-stress abrasion (erosion). In low-stress abrasion stresses are not sufficiently high to cause much fragmentation of ore. Slurry pipelines, slurry pumps and screens are examples of equipment that undergo this type of wear.

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