The
heat transfer from a liquid to its solid form (called "melting")
is very fast.
In practice it is limited by the speed with which the melted
cold water is mixed with the rest.
So stirring and the surface area of the ice are the most important factor.
Under typical conditions of a drink, all other factors like
the temperature of the ice (blelow zero C) and so on
are secondary. The heat of melting for ice is 80 cal/g ,
whereas the specific heat of ice 0 .5 cal/gdeg is small,
and the heat conduction from inside the ice cube is slow.
So a ice cube of 1 g and say, - 10 degrees C supplies 5 cal when
heated from -10 to 0 degrees, whereas the same amount of ice will
take on 80 cal when melting at 0 degrees!
The melting occurs instantously at the surface,
the heat taken from the liquid is limited by the
dispersion of the melted ice into the drink.
Georg