Global Mining Guidelines Group – GMG

📢Webinar: Launching the GMG Framework for Safe Mixed Fleet Operations Underground📢 A Path Toward Coexistence of Autonomous and Operator-Driven Equipment Underground mines are on the verge of a major shift – one where #autonomous and operator-driven equipment, and human workers, must safely and efficiently share the same space. Right now, they can’t. Current safety systems do not support mixed traffic environments underground, creating a limit on the integration of autonomous mobile equipment. To realize the full safety, productivity, and workforce benefits of autonomy, the industry must move beyond isolated zones to truly collaborative operations. This is one of the most critical challenges facing underground mining today and GMG is launching a new framework to tackle it. Join us for this webinar introducing the GMG Framework for Safe Mixed Fleet Operations Underground Mining. This new, multi-part project aims to build the foundation for enabling the safe, interoperable coexistence of automated and operator-controlled equipment alongside personnel underground. You’ll learn: 🦺Why the current inability to mix autonomous and operator-driven traffic underground is a major bottleneck for mining innovation. 🦺The vision behind the framework and how it builds on GMG’s system safety work. 🦺The real-world implications for mine safety, productivity, and operational flexibility if we solve this challenge. 🦺The structure of the project and upcoming white papers on Theoretical Foundations, Technical Implementation, Industry Application, and Building an Open Ecosystem. This is your opportunity to get involved at the ground level of a game-changing industry collaboration! Date: April 23, 2025 🔗Register https://lnkd.in/grVsHDBr #mining #UndergroundMining #autonomous

Hear from Ron and other underground technology leaders from Rio Tinto, Agnico Eagle, and more! Join us for a focused panel discussion and collaborative workshop aimed at finalizing the upcoming version of GMG’s Underground Communications Infrastructure Guideline, which takes a full lifecycle approach to mine connectivity starting with technology selection and extending through to installation, operation, and eventual decommissioning. This session zeroes in on the Operation and Maintenance phase, with a focus on #wireless technologies, the dominant technologies in use underground today. Whether you’re modernizing legacy systems, scaling autonomous fleets, or aligning network upgrades with broader digital transformation strategies, this is your opportunity to benchmark against peers and help shape industry guidance. 📍Date: April 29, 2025 Virtual SESSION FORMAT Panel Discussion: Operator insights and Q&A with members of project steering committee: 🦺Ron Bose, GMG project co-lead and Principal Engineer, Operations Technology, XPS, a Glencore Company 🦺Russell Kennett, GMG project co-lead and Manager, UG Technology, Rio Tinto 🦺Justin L., Mine Business Improvement and Projects General Supervisor, Agnico Eagle 🦺 Terry Pasieka, Program Manager, CGI Collaborative Workshop: Practical problem-solving and input into the guideline WHY ATTEND? 💡Hear hard-earned lessons directly from operators – what worked, what didn’t, and why. 💡Dig into practical challenges: commissioning timelines, performance validation, QA/QC, integration with OT/IT environments, and vendor coordination. 💡Get perspectives on resourcing: when to build in-house capability and when to bring in external expertise. 💡Influence and contribute to a guideline that will set the standard for underground network implementation across the industry. 🔗 REGISTER https://lnkd.in/grJKW2pX #UndergroundMining #mining #minecommunications

Highlights! 👀 In March, GMG’s #Johannesburg Forum convened mining leaders, technology innovators, and operational experts to address the sector’s most urgent challenges – ranging from digital transformation and #AI integration to #decarbonization and full-site #interoperability. Held in the heart of South Africa’s mining region, the forum featured deep-dive panels, working sessions, and collaborative breakout discussions aimed at generating practical, scalable strategies for mining’s future. Through real-world case studies, cross-sector dialogue, and contributions from major operators, the event underscored a growing industry commitment to smarter, more sustainable, and connected mining practices. Click below to read more on the challenges and opportunities attendees identified, as well as highlights from all of the sessions! 🔗https://lnkd.in/gizwz3zc #mining #southafrica SAIMM - The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Hear from Russell and other underground technology leaders from Glencore, Agnico Eagle, and more! Join us for a focused panel discussion and collaborative workshop aimed at finalizing the upcoming version of GMG’s Underground Communications Infrastructure Guideline, which takes a full lifecycle approach to mine connectivity starting with technology selection and extending through to installation, operation, and eventual decommissioning. This session zeroes in on the Operation and Maintenance phase, with a focus on #wireless technologies, the dominant technologies in use underground today. Whether you’re modernizing legacy systems, scaling autonomous fleets, or aligning network upgrades with broader digital transformation strategies, this is your opportunity to benchmark against peers and help shape industry guidance. 📍Date: April 29, 2025 Virtual SESSION FORMAT Panel Discussion: Operator insights and Q&A with members of project steering committee: 🦺Ron Bose, GMG project co-lead and Principal Engineer, Operations Technology, XPS, a Glencore Company 🦺Russell Kennett, GMG project co-lead and Manager, UG Technology, Rio Tinto 🦺Justin L., Mine Business Improvement and Projects General Supervisor, Agnico Eagle 🦺Terry Pasieka, Program Manager, CGI Collaborative Workshop: Practical problem-solving and input into the guideline WHY ATTEND? 💡Hear hard-earned lessons directly from operators – what worked, what didn’t, and why. 💡Dig into practical challenges: commissioning timelines, performance validation, QA/QC, integration with OT/IT environments, and vendor coordination. 💡Get perspectives on resourcing: when to build in-house capability and when to bring in external expertise. 💡Influence and contribute to a guideline that will set the standard for underground network implementation across the industry. 🔗 REGISTER https://lnkd.in/grJKW2pX Next workshop: May 27, 2025 🔗https://lnkd.in/gyAfHvVM #UndergroundMining #mining #minecommunications

The Global Open Innovation Colab at the Global Resources Innovation Expo (GRX25), brings together global leaders in mining innovation to connect, strategise and align on the industry’s most pressing challenges. Through a series of interactive sessions, delegates will hear from key voices shaping the future of collaborative innovation - including leaders from BHP, Rio Tinto, NORCAT, CEMI | Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation, Hub de Innovación Minera del Perú, Global Mining Guidelines Group – GMG and Prospect Innovation. Whether you’re driving technology adoption or exploring new partnership models, the Colab offers practical insights, global perspectives, and an opportunity to help define shared priorities for future progress. The Global Open Innovation Colab is open to all #GRX25 delegates! Find out more and register: https://lnkd.in/gaihau3p

We’re getting real at the Global Mining Guidelines Group – GMG Stockholm Forum, exploring cutting edge/bleeding edge technologies through the real life example of dating through Tinder. Rasmus Tammia of Boliden is sharing the lessons learned about working with AI/machine learning and the future we are heading to. He discussed the Boliden Edge Lab, examples of how he has leveraged the lab capability, how the lab is set up, peppered with some glorious examples of current genAI fails.

Readiness for AI panel at the Global Mining Guidelines Group – GMG Stockholm Forum this morning with moderator Magnus Töyrä of LKAB and panelists Rasmus Tammia Mikael Ramström Lior Herman Tyron Vardy of Boliden Epiroc Sandvik and ABB -some points raised: How to harness information that people have in their heads - a simple way to look at genAI When you get beyond knowledge management and start doing analysis with AI you realize you have information you weren’t aware of. A lot of companies, especially start-ups, are having trouble clearly expressing their value proposition. I don’t think we have really settled in in how to use this technology yet. One piece that we need to focus on it exploinability, which I think is something that will pass.

Lots coming on AI at GMG! Visit our Events page to discover more and register: https://lnkd.in/gAWgYSsz

Solve the emissions equation!💨 Join our next webinar: Emissions From Surface-operated Mining Assets: The Power of Simulation! 🔗Register here! https://lnkd.in/gYbydFdJ 📍April 23 5PM PDT | 7PM PET | 8PM EDT/CLT | 12AM +1 UTC | 8AM +1 AWST | 10AM +1 AEST 2030 is tomorrow! Most mining companies with surface-operated assets are committed to a 30% emissions reduction from the 2018 baseline. Outside of Battery Electric Haul Trucks (BEHT), what solutions are available and may provide a transition to reach that defined goal? Some OEMs are now building new engines or hybrid retrofit kits, or even new trucks capable of supporting a transition within the transition. Biofuels or renewable fuels, ethanol blends, or hybrid systems (ICE + battery) could be a solution to achieve the 2030 reductions in some of the main surface-operated mining locations. Combined technologies (ICE + battery or ethanol blend) are also being considered to ease the adoption of emissions reduction technologies. This opens up a transition within the overall technological transition, minimizing future infrastructure investments and operational changes. Hear from Vale Base Metals and Stream Systems Ltd. and understand the simulation of new technologies on an operating mine or greenfield site, integrating operational behaviors, multi-agent systems, TRL (Technology Readiness Level), commercialization and cost sensitivity to drive decision-making. #SustainableMining #EnergyTransition #ZeroCarbonMine #electricmine #MiningInnovation #DigitalMine #Simulation #Mining Cedric Laney Mark Sawyer Michel Serres

During the first working session at the Global Mining Guidelines Group – GMG Stockholm Forum will feed into our newly launched Energy Management Across the Mine Site project. Participants identified common onsite projects - productivity improvements, technology deployments, efficiency improvements, innovations - and how they impact energy and carbon emissions, and, more interestingly, what steps could be taken to make major impacts on energy and carbon footprint. Fleet deployments, ventilation, use of simulation/AI/other uses of data were the major themes.