%B Proceedings 32ⁿ₫ International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy %V I %T A low cost and widely applicable methodology of digital imagen analysis of ores for mineral and envirommental engineering %L upm10968 %D 2004 %X Technological and environmental problems related to ore processing are a serious limitation for sustainable development of mineral resources, particularly for countries / companies rich in ores, but with little access to sophisticated technology, e.g. in Latin America. Digital image analysis (DIA) can provide a simple, unexpensive and broadly applicable methodology to assess these problems, but this methodology has to be carefully defined, to produce reproducible and relevant information. %I International Geological Congress %C Florencia %A Edgar Berrezueta %A Ricardo Castroviejo Bolibar