Good practices to enable the adoption of battery electric vehicles in mining. With Latin America being a global leader in mining, having the opportunity to publish this guideline in Spanish is a milestone that will enable GMG to continue to support the Latin American mining community...
The Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG) has published a revision of Methods to Survey and Sample Circuits for Determining Energy Efficiency, which was originally published in 2013. This guideline aims to provide tools for practitioners to measure the energy efficiency of comminution circuits using standardized metrics. Additionally, it...
Prácticas recomendadas que permiten la incorporación de vehículos eléctricos a batería en la minería. Las empresas mineras mencionan diferentes razones para enfocarse en la incorporación de vehículos eléctricos a batería (BEV) en sus operaciones, entre ellas los objetivos corporativos de reducción de carbono o la habilitación de...
Ception offers innovative AI solution for mobile heavy equipment to improve safety, productivity, and sustainability of mining operations. [MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022] The Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG) is proud to welcome Ception, an Israeli startup that develops an innovative AI-powered system for mobile heavy equipment,...
We are a global and open community focused on industry alignment, collaboration, enabling good practices and supporting the operationalization of innovation to improve the way we mine. We achieve this by collecting industry knowledge and making it available in a structured way. Industry input over the...
GMG's recommended best practices for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) in underground mining were referred to in International Mining's recent article as a useful resource for developing standardized system for Vale's Creighton nickel mine, which aims to lower operating costs and improve environmental conditions for its personnel. Read...
COVID-19 has changed the mining reality forever, as we now need to adapt to virtual teams, new safety measures and changes in our business model and strategy. On March 24th, GMG facilitated an interactive online event on ‘The Future of Workplace’ to understand the future...
The mining industry is searching for solutions to the same challenge that many other industries are facing right now: how to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. While the industry has seen some great progress in eliminating diesel from underground mines, there are still many...
GMG Chair Michelle Ash was featured in Australia's Mining Monthly, speaking to how mining's future of fully integrated operations starting with strong understanding of the orebody and running right through the value chain may be a lot closer than some think...
GMG guidelines were recently referred to in Mining-Technology.com's recent article as a useful resource for mining companies like Normet to learn about and adopt best practices in underground communication and data transfer. Read the full article here: https://www.mining-technology.com/future-of-mining/digitalisation-in-mines-the-future-of-connectivity-in-the-mining-industry GMG guidelines are peer-reviewed documents that offer best practices,...
At the end of 2019, Tim Skinner, President of SMART Systems Group and leader in the foundation of GMG, retired from his role as Vice-Chair, International Standards. Tim has been instrumental to GMG over the years and has been a strong voice for collaboration and...
The GMG Electric Mine Working Group, launched last Fall, is gearing up to launch its first projects. A project on electric equipment tracking would capture key learnings and KPIs and enable the development of case studies. The output would be a platform that takes a...
Asset location tracking systems – for physical assets as well as personnel – have great potential to enhance value and improve safety and productivity. However, underground mines have additional challenges in this area due to the lack of GPS. The GMG Underground Mine Communications Infrastructure...
Some of the pioneers of autonomous mining – including two of the very few operations running autonomous fleets at their sites, Imperial Oil and Roy Hill – will share their experiences at the GMG Implementing Autonomous systems short course...
An essential part of developing a business case for implementing autonomous systems in mining is to ask: how will this affect our social license to operate? This immense change will affect the workforce and the surrounding community. This important consideration is a thread throughout the...