The conference is organized by the Department of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy of the National University of Athens, Greece and its purpose is to promote technology transfer and identify future courses of action in research and development via the Internet.
The topics covered include applications in a wide spectrum of mining related fields: Mineral exploration; Orebody modelling; Mine planning and operations; Mine equipment; Rock mechanics; Mine safety and training; Reclamation and environmental issues; Mineral processing.
The complete proceedings are published on a CD-ROM with an accompaying book which contains the full texts of keynote papers and the abstracts (including full title, author's names and e-mail addresses as well a keyword index) of all papers.