Mining Congresses, World

international conferences held since 1958. The first World Mining Congress was organized on the initiative of the State Mining Council of the Polish People’s Republic and the Coal Committee of the European Commission of the United Nations. Six world mining congresses were held between 1958 and 1970 (see Table I).

The international organizing committee determines the location

Table 1. World mining congresses
	Place	Date	Theme	Number of participating countries	Number of participants	Number of papers
1st	Warsaw, Poland	September 1958	Construction of mines and quarries	15	700	72
2nd	Prague, Czechoslovakia	May 1961	Profitability of mining enterprise operations	17	700	50
3rd	Salzburg, Austria	September 1963	Science and technology in the prevention of work accidents	22	900	43
4th	London, England	July 1965	Coal and ore deposit mining systems, designing of mining enterprises, planning of mining operations	42	1,500	42
5th	Moscow, USSR	July 1967	Technological progress in the mining industry	44	1,800	55
6th	Madrid, Spain	June 1970	Science in the service of mining	48	1,600	88

in which each world mining congress is to be held. Beginning with the fourth congress, international exhibitions of mining equipment have been organized in conjunction with the world mining congresses. Intergormash-67, held at the time of the Fifth World Mining Congress, was the most impressive exhibition.

B. E. KAZAKOV [7–297-I]