Trends in Minerals & Materials Technology(MMT-2019)

The consumption of metals and their products has been increased

tremendously due to the development of civilization and technological

advances. Further, their utilization escalated in most of the developing

countries. As a result, metallurgical industries have increased their

production units as well as outputs to meet this rapid growing demand

of different metals. This augmented metal extraction causes serious

depletion of different primary resources. Therefore, there is a doubt

on sustainability of metal production in light of the expected shortage

of primary resources. In this uncertainty, low-grade ores, secondary

resources and wastes evolved as a ray of light. However, metal

extraction from these resources is not easy as that from primary

resources because they contain maximum impurities. To make it easy,

worldwide different scientists have explored their research with the

aid different aspects of science and technology that include the

advanced form of chemical, metallurgical, mining, biotechnological

and environmental engineering. This interdisciplinary research

related to different applications in the metallurgical industries is

further classified in to mineral processing, extractive metallurgy,

environmental technology and materials technology. The mineral

processing aids the suitability of different secondary mineral resources

for the low-cost metal extraction. The advanced extractive

metallurgical processes further optimise the metal recovery in the ecofriendly

way. Environmental problems are always associated with the

metallurgical processes starting from mining to metals and their

products. Therefore, environmental technology has a major role in

maintaining the race of the built ecosystem without disturbing the

natural ecosystem. Properties enhancement of metals and their alloys

have a big impact on overall production process of different

metallurgical industries. Since the above technologies are cooperative

to each other's, worldwide thousands of scientists are working

restlessly in different aspects of the research fields. Although it is a

spontaneous process, some groups have found the suitable solutions

to different problems of the metallurgical industries. But the solutions

must be reviewed in the research communities. They should be

transferred to the young and fresh brain of students and research

scholars for their innovative. Overall it can be said that there must be

some brainstorming among the research communities for the better

and fruitful solutions in the metallurgical industries. The National

conference on “Trends in Minerals & Materials Technology

(MMT-2019)” is a platform for different scientists, academicians and

industrialists throughout India to discuss and enlighten the trend of the

solutions with respect to the different problems associated with the

metallurgical industries.