When screening materials, laboratory abrasive wear testing is a quick and inexpensive way of obtaining large quantities on information on wear rates and wear mechanisms. Typical laboratory abrasive wear tests approximate two-and three-body abrasion. The Albany Research Center, however, uses a suite of four laboratory abrasion, gouging-abrasion, and impact-gouging abrasion wear tests to rank materials for wear applications in the mining and minerals processing industries. These tests, and the wear mechanisms they approximate, Ž . Ž . Ž . Ž . Ž . are: 1 dry-sand, rubber-wheel three-body, low-stress abrasion ; 2 pin-on-drum two-body, high-stress abrasion ; 3 jaw crusher Ž . Ž . Ž . high-stress gouging-abrasion ; and 4 high-speed, impeller-tumbler impact-abrasion . Subsequently, candidate materials can be ranked according to their performance for each of the wear tests. The abrasion, gouging-abrasion, and impact-abrasion test methods are described, highlighting the predominant wear mechanisms for each test. Data on a wide variety of irons and steels are presented with relative ranking of the materials according to the specific wear test.