Book excerpt: "The papers presented at this conference were organized in the following thematic units : Resources management towards sustainable development, Advances in solid waste management, Underground mining quality/mining heritage, Advances in geophysics, Advances in surface mining, Advances in ground water modelling, Advances in industrial minerals applications, Advances in metal recovery from primary and secondary resources, Advances in remediation technologies, Advances in geotechnics and geomechanics, Advances in processing and energy related issues, Advances in liquid waste management, Advances in surface mining environmental impacts, Advances in environmental impact - risk assessment - monitoring techniques."--Préface