一个事业上成功的矿物工程师必须努力达到一些重要的目标,完成的产品必须是合乎需要的、有市场的、在用户可接受的限度内。矿物处理过程必须是环境所允许的并处于始终变化着的管理要求范围内。最后,必须不断提高利润额以弥补逐渐增长的业务成本。为帮助实现这些目标,必须拥有新的和创造性的技术,近一年来,许多会议和出版物都提出了这些问题。 A successful mining engineer must work hard to achieve some important goals. The finished product must be desirable, marketable, and within user-acceptable limits. Mineral processing must be environmentally acceptable and subject to changing regulatory requirements. Finally, profits must be continually raised to make up for the rising costs of doing business. To help achieve these goals, there must be new and innovative technologies that have been raised by many conferences and publications in the past year.