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1. Recent publications Canadian minerals yearbook 1986. Review and outlook. Mineral Report 35. Available from Printing and Publishing, Supply and Services Canada, Hull, Quebec KIAOS9, Canada. $44.70. The 1987 Sigma cataloge. SI. Louis (USA), Sigma Chemical Co., 1986. 1736 pp. Der Maschinenschaden. Munchen(G. rmany), Koningstrasse 28. Metallurgicalworks in Canada primary iron and steel 1987. Mineral Bulletin MR 214. Available from the above address at $6.60 per copy. Annual report 1986. Oxbridge, International Research Institute, 1987. Canadian iron ore industry statistics, 1986, by B.W. Boyd and A. Cadieux. Publication MRI 87/6. Micromedia Limited (Document Delivery, 165 Hotel de Ville, Place du Portage 2, Hull, Quebec J8X 3X2, Canada). Tin and its uses no. 153. Oxbridge (England), International Tin Research Institute, 1987. This issue includes articles on can-making, titanium-tin alloy, coppernickel2. New journal Pergamon are producing a new journal, entitled Minerals Engineering, which they describe as 'an international journal devoted to innovation and developments in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy'. 3. Mintek publications Report M298. The effect of flocculant additions to the leaching solution on the kinetics of the oxidative dissolution of sphalerite, by F.K. Crundwell. Report M304. The smelting of ilmenite in a d.c. transferred-arcplasma furnace with a molten-anode configuration, by AD. Brent. Jut 1987. 17 pp. Report M312. The reactions of some thiol collectors at noble-metal and pyrite electrodes, by D.R. Groot. Jut 1987. 21 pp. Report M321. The determination of molybdenum, arsenic, and uranium in activated carbon by X-rayfluorescence spectrometry,by A.M.E. Balaes and G.J. Wall. Aug. 1987. Report M321. The determination of molybdenum, arsenic, and uranium in activated carbon by X-rayfluorescence pectrometry, by A.M.E. Balaes and G.J. Wall. Aug. 1987.