The Data & AI Working Group helps the mining industry collect, share, integrate, govern, and apply data safely, effectively, and at scale — including through analytics, artificial intelligence, automation, and decision-support tools. It brings together GMG’s former Data & Interoperability and Artificial Intelligence + Applications of Data working groups, reflecting how closely connected data foundations and advanced applications have become in mining.

The Autonomous Mining Working Group is focused on assisting the industry with its ongoing digital transformation and helping operations achieve the benefits that autonomous systems can offer. The group is built by subject-matter experts, leaders from inside and outside the industry, suppliers, operators, and those interested in implementing autonomous systems in mining.

The GMG Asset Management Working Group is an inclusive and global operator-driven community of interest whose primary purpose is to identify and share leading practices in asset management, reliability, and maintenance. The group is dedicated to developing asset management guidelines that result in improved safety, ESG, and operating performance for the benefit of the mining industry.

As new technologies and systems are adopted in the mining industry, they produce a wider range of data, which is being used for critical decision-making, reducing costs, optimizing processes, forecasting, trend analysis and more. However, the industry is also facing many challenges with integration, interoperability, and the overall management of data.

This working group is a community of interest for operators, suppliers, subject-matter experts and other stakeholders interested in discussing and addressing common industry challenges for mineral processing. Topics include comminution efficiency, plant improvement and design, emerging technologies, metallurgical accounting, and testing procedures.

Develop resources and foster collaboration on operationalizing sustainability, which refers to the process of making sustainability practical, implemented, measurable, technically applied, and integrated throughout operations.

This working group is a global community that aims to accelerate the adoption of all-electric technologies in mining, address the challenges associated with them, and share information on how they can enable safer, more efficient, productive, and cost-effective mines.

Underground mines are going deeper to meet increased demands and are innovating to improve communication, safety, and productivity. This working group is an opportunity for the underground mining community to address the challenges and opportunities and drive ongoing innovation underground by sharing best practices, facilitating innovation, and driving the global conversation.