Editor’s Note CLEANING UP

This month’s issue reflects this shifting reality. It is weighted in favor of reports on new plants and procedures that have sprung from environmental concerns and regulations. We didn’t deliberately seek out projects with an environmental angle. They just seem to be proliferating today. Sensitivity to environmental matters even colored articles in this issue that seldom reflect such a bias — for example, our west coast contributor David Duval’s story from Westmin’s Myra Falls polymetallic operation on Vancouver Island.

So the issue you hold in your hands became our “environmental” issue, though not by design. It just turned out that way, because in heap leaching and mineral processing at least, some of the bigger and more interesting projects have been inspired or imposed by environmental concerns.

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