A large amount of solid and liquid wastes produced by mines and mills each year needs to be managed and minimized by alternative disposal methods like paste and dry stack. Increasingly strict environmental legislation and cost competitiveness also dictate the utilization of technically suitable, economically viable, environmentally acceptable, and socially responsible techniques. This paper reviews some of these techniques that could potentially reduce large volumes of mine wastes (with a focus on mine tailings and waste rocks) without causing significant environmental hazards. The new emerging techniques such as environmental desulphurization, covers built with sulphide-free tailings, co-disposal of tailings and waste rocks, geotextile tube dewatering, and use of tailings in the cement production and road construction for both industrial and environmental purposes are discussed in terms of waste minimization. The existing methods and approaches for efficient waste treatment and disposal are also discussed in this review paper.

In the article the Author tries to show that the particular character of the vision of the world and history is specially revealed in the cultural and historical metaphors prevailing in that culture and history. The Author presents two ways of understanding the term (metaphor) in historical research; the advantages and the limitations of investigation based on one of them.

This article tries to bring more clarity to the issue of media control by the Polish communist party, and in particu-lar identify the institutions, political bodies and politicians who exercised various degrees of control over the press, radio and television in the first half of the 1970. An analysis of various kinds of records and data indi-cates that the day-to-day business of setting the party line for the media was in the hands of propaganda de-partments at the level of the Central Committee. In 1972 they were merged into a single Department of Propa-‑ganda, Press and Publications, headed by Jerzy Łukaszewicz, member of the CC Secretariat, and overseen by Jan Szydlak, member of the Poliburo.