The Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG) has published Industry Priorities, Challenges, and Collaborative Approaches: Report on the 2022 GMG Mine Operator Roundtables. This report covers the output of 12 workshops held in January and February 2022, covering surface mining, underground mining, mineral processing, asset management,...
This report describes a high-level foundation and reference on interoperability in mining based on input that GMG has received from industry participants over four years. It aims to provide broad context on interoperability and its benefits in order to accommodate a global landscape with varied...
Open data from mobile equipment can enable mining companies to make data-driven decisions that maximize equipment safety, utilization, and performance and foster innovation and continuous improvement. While a key topic within GMG for many years, the community has identified a need to refocus and reinvigorate effort on it. Participants...
Based on industry priorities brought forth during the GMG Fall 2020 Leadership Summit, here is a compilation of actions GMG is taking to foster and enable collaboration that will accelerate innovation in the mining industry. Key topics: Sustainability related goals especially around adopting electric equipment and...
During the GMG leadership summit last fall our members identified priorities that will be fed to the Sustainability Working Group Steering Committee to help it focus its efforts. For example, the working group will not be launching initiatives regarding standards, policy, or legislation, as there...
Between April and June 2020, the GMG Mineral Processing Working Group circulated a survey on collaboration priorities on the topic to help narrow down key focus areas for future work that will be the most beneficial for the broader industry. 95 respondents completed the survey. Respondents identified...
The 2020 GMG Leadership Summit brought together leaders, executives, and visionaries in the mining industry to strategize on improvements to safety, sustainability, social license, productivity, and energy, all while managing the unprecedented impact of the global pandemic. This year did not go as anyone had planned –...
A survey that was open between April and June 2020 with 95 respondents (as of June 9) and workshops held on May 7 and May 20 aimed to define priorities for the GMG Electric Mine Working Group's Operational Knowledge Sharing Platform project. This project aims to create...
The 2019 GMG Leadership Summit was an interactive event aimed at developing collaboration strategies on three key topics for the mining industry: • Interoperability (see p. 3) • The workforce of the future (see p. 5) • Climate change (see p. 7) All three areas have wide-reaching implications with...
256 respondents of various backgrounds participated in a survey on GMG's Open Mining Format (OMF) to gauge priorities for OMF Version 2....
The Data Exchange for Mine Software project group (Data Access and Usage Working Group) identified the need for a shared open format for 3D data within the mining industry, to allow users to easily move clean and accurate 3D information between applications. The purpose of the...