Important: deadline of submitting full-text papers extended! The new deadline:7th May 2012.

Dear Participants of the 11^th Symposium,

As Chairman of the Organizing Committee of 11^th International Symposium of Continuous Surface Mining to be organized on 25-27^th June, 2012 by Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering, University of Miskolc (Hungary),  I am glad to greet participants of this meeting from all over the world.

Series of these meetings began in 1986, a little bit more than a quarter of a century ago. All the former symposiums were organized by universities, which are institutions of educating mining engineers:

·         1^st (1986):      University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

·         2^nd (1988):     Texas A&M University (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)

·         3^rd (1991):    CS Mining Association (Prague, Czech Republic)

·         4^th (1995):    RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)

·         5^th (1998):    Wroclaw Technical University (Wroclaw, Poland)

·         6^th (2001):    TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg, Germany)

·         7^th (2004):    University of Missouri-Rolla (Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.)

·         8^th (2007):    RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)

·         9^th (2008):     University of Petrosany (Petrosany, Romania)

·         10^th (2010):  TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg, Germany)

Hundreds of specialists took part at these great events from numerous parts of the world. They visited these meetings to read their papers dealing with different problems of mining engineering, to exhibit their products, or just to listen to these demonstrations and meet their colleagues.

Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering of University of Miskolc is glad to organize the next symposium of this great meeting. The faculty, which is the successor of the first mining school in Europe, established in Selmecbánya (Schemnitz, Banska Stiavnica) in 1735. Although numerous other kinds of specialists, such as mechanical engineers, metallurgical and materials engineers, lawyers, economists, teachers, musicians, etc. are being educated at our university, mining engineering remained a very important field of education.

Our school expects and is looking forward to welcome you at the Symposium.

Jozsef Molnar

Chairman

Organizing Committee of the 11th Symposium