Physicochemical problems of mineral processing
Polanica Zdrof, Poland, September 16-18, 2002

The 39th Symposium on the Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing was held at Polanica Zdroj (Lover Silesia, Poland) and was attended by more than 50 participants. Delegates to the meeting included researchers not only from Poland but also from Australia (4 persons), Egypt (2 persons) and United Kingdom (1 person).

The first session was devoted to celebration of the 80th birthday of Professor Andrzej Pomianowski. The topic of his lecture was Modelling of surface phenomena.

The symposium comprised nine sessions each dedicated to a specific topic of research such as flotation, adsorption and modification, extraction and metals recovery, environmental issues, and various aspect of mineral engineering. The organizers of the symposium were Institute of Mining Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology and the Committee of Mining of the Polish Academy of Science.

Presented papers at the symposium were published in the Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing journal, volume 36, 2002, ISSN number 0137-1282 and in the conference proceedings, which contain 8 papers in Polish, (ISSN number 0324-9670).

Dr. Zygmunt Sadowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. Email: sadowski@iic.pwr.wroc.pl