Summary Preface Current Issues on Sustainable Development that Impacts

This discussion addresses some SD issues associated to the extracting and processing of mineral commodities that are of major concern to the mining enterprises , mining communities and that are the focal point of research engineer or mineral scientist in an attempt to design sustainably sound processes and products. Also, at the end, a section on Sustainability Indicators , the main object of this book , is ,as well indicated. It is observed that several versions of this discussions were made available by the author, due to the interest it raises in several forums of debate and discussion on Sustainable Development and the Minerals Extraction Industries .