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List of types of mill

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Types of mill include the following:

Manufacturing facilities

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Categorized by power source

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  • Watermill, a mill powered by moving water
  • Windmill, a mill powered by moving air (wind)
  • Tide mill, a water mill that uses the tide's movement
  • Treadmill or treadwheel, a mill powered by human or animal movement

Categorized by not being a fixed building

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Categorized by what is made and/or acted on

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Other types

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Industrial tools for size reduction and/or filtration

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(See comminution, filtration)

  • Arrastra, simple mill for grinding and pulverizing (typically) gold or silver ore
  • Ball mill, a mill using balls to crush the material
  • Bead mill a type of Mill (grinding)
  • Burr mill or burr grinder, a mill using burrs to crush the material, usually manufactured for a single purpose such as coffee beans, dried peppercorns, coarse salt, spices, or poppy seeds
  • Coffee grinder
  • Conical mill (or conical screen mill)
  • Cutting mill, a device commonly used in laboratories for the preliminary size reduction of materials
  • Disc mill (or disk mill)
  • Edge mill
  • End mill, a type of milling cutter used in milling in the machining sense
  • Expeller pressing (also called oil pressing)
  • Hammermill, a mill using little hammers to crush the material
  • IsaMill, an energy-efficient mineral industry grinding mill that was jointly developed in the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines
  • Jet mill, grinds materials by using a high speed jet of compressed air or inert gas to impact particles into each other.
  • Milling machine, a machine tool that performs milling (machining)
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Pin mill, a mill for achieving very fine particle sizes
  • Planetary mill
  • Roller mill, a mill using rollers to grind or pulverize grain and other raw materials using cylinders
  • Rolling mill, for rolling (metalworking)
  • Slitting mill, for slitting metal into nails
  • VSI mill, a mill with a vertical shaft that spins
  • Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials
  • Three roll mill
  • Ultrasonic disintegrator a type of Mill (grinding)
  • Vibratory mill a type of Mill (grinding)
  • VSI mill (vertical shaft impactor mill), a mill that comminutes particles of material into smaller (finer) particles by throwing them against a hard surface inside the mill
  • A wet mill performs wet-milling: steeps a substance in water to remove specific compounds
  • Wiley mill, a specific group of grinding mills manufactured under the name Thomas Scientific