Selected Papers from the Mineral Engineering Conference—MEC 2019

Dear colleagues,

Mineral processing is a crucial part of the production of our natural resources and determines the efficiency of mining processes. Together with metallurgical processes, it delivers the main elements to national industry in a suitable form. Such processes as crushing, grinding, screening and various sorts of classification are the main technological processes, usually characterized by significant costs and environmental impact. Furthermore, the amount of natural resources is limited and it is important to recover them as well as possible. The growing demand for materials, especially for those qualified as strategic or critical materials, means that the appropriate selection of technological processes is very important, especially with regard to their capacity and the efficiency of gaining materials from both primary and secondary sources. For this reason, the influence of these processes on the economy, waste production and the natural environment is a very important issue. As a result, constant optimization should be the goal of all mineral processing and metallurgical plants.

The key objective of Minerals Engineering Conference 2019—which is at the same time 15^th International Conference of Non-Ferrous Ores Processing, the 56^th Seminar on Physicochemical Problems of Minerallurgy, and the 24^th International Conference of Mineral Processing—is to share the latest developments in mineral processing, minimization of waste production, post-production waste management, process modeling and optimization, new technologies and others aspects supporting the current needs and expectations of manufacturers and society. The main topics of the conference are:

• analytical techniques and applied mineralogy
• automation and process control
• comminution, classification and sorting
• froth flotation
• solid-liquid separation
• gravity concentration
• magnetic and electric separation
• hydro- and biohydrometallurgy
• extractive metallurgy
• recycling and mineral waste
• modification of mineral properties
• environmental aspects of mineral processing

We invite professionals from mineral processing and metallurgy, producers of equipment and software providers, people from research institutes and scientific university staff to attend the conference. We cordially invite you to join us at the conference and also to submit the extended version of your manuscripts to this Special Issue.    

Dr. Tomasz Niedoba
Dr. Agnieszka Surowiak
Prof. Dr. Oktay Sahbaz
Guest Editors

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