EPD Congress 2016 proceedings of symposia sponsored by the Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) held during TMS 2016 145th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, February 14-18 Downtown Nashville, Tennessee Music City Center - Allanore, Antoine; Bartlett, Laura; Wang, Cong (Engineer); Zhang, Lifeng (College teacher); Lee, Jonghyun (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016)