The September 1998 symposium attracted 153 papers on recent developments in mineral and coal processing from 23 countries. The papers on a broad spectrum of subjects are organized around the dozen major topic headings of: comminution, classification and sizing; flotation and flocculation fundamentals; flotation technology; industrial minerals; coal processing; hydro- and biohydrometallurgy; gold and silver; modeling, control and simulation; agglomeration and physical enrichment; process and plant design, and operating practice; gravity, magnetic, electrostatic; and waste treatment and utilization. The editors are from Istanbul Technical U. Includes several industry advertisements. Author index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR