Minerals provide us with most of our material requirements for our lives on earth. Thus mineral processing is a very important area for sustainable development and for exploration of new frontiers in technology. This Annual Conference on Minerals for a Better Future organized by Department of Earth Resources Engineering and the Geological Survey and Mine Bureau is an attempt to focus attention on this very important topic, and create awareness among the industry, academia and policy-makers on this aspect. This volume of proceedings carries publications resulting from the research and projectworks of the departmental staff and students, as well as other invited research papers concerning the fields of minerals and mining.

Karunaratne, S. (Ed.) (2007), Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference on Minerals for a Better Future – A Multidisciplinary Approach. Department of Earth Resources Engineering, University of Moratuwa.