This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Symposium on Precious and Rare Metals, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., 6-8 April 1988. The Symposium focused on recent advances achieved in research and development related to geology, mining, extractive metallurgy, as well as in materials aspects of precious and a number of other metals. Selected Contents: Foreword. Section I. …