The World Mining Congress 2023 (WMC) is a unique opportunity for international representatives of the world’s leading resource economies to meet, find new partners, discuss current challenges, and share the latest research, technology and best practice.
WMC events have set the scene for international agreements and high-level discussions that have influenced mining practices and the resource industry for decades. Join senior mining industry owners, investors, national and international government representatives, researchers, educators, regulators, suppliers and operators from around the world in Brisbane for this genuine opportunity to demonstrate real leadership and presence on a world stage.
Inaugurated in 1958, the World Mining Congress (WMC) is the leading international forum for the global mining and resources sectors. For the past 60 years WMC has been held triennially across the world. It presents a unique opportunity for international representatives of the world’s leading resource economies to meet, find new partners, discuss challenges, and share research, technologies, and best practice.
Mining and resources have been a tremendous source of wealth and advancement, but with that comes tremendous responsibility.
At the core of everything we do must be our most precious resources – our people and our environment – and the sustainable and responsible practices that both preserve natural ecosystems and contribute to society.
There is potential for enormous future societal benefit for communities around the world, but to achieve this, we must bring the sector together under shared values of People, Environment and Production.
The 26th WMC will be held in Brisbane, Australia, 26 – 29 June 2023, hosted by Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, and supported by government, industry, and academia.
This Congress will focus on Resourcing Tomorrow: Creating Value for Society. It will examine the world’s future economic and social dependence on resources, considering issues like environmental sustainability, climate change, digital transformation, disruptive technologies, and our future workforce.
The Congress represents an exceptional opportunity for all organisations seeking engagement with the resources sector. Mining companies, investors, researchers, educators, regulators, suppliers, and operators from around the world will gather in Brisbane to benefit from insights and grow relationships.
We look forward to welcoming you to Australia and your participation in this premier international mining and resources event.
Dr Larry Marshall
Chief Executive
CSIRO
Dr Hua Guo
Chair
26th World Mining Congress
Professor Marek Cała
Chairman of International
Organising Committee of World Mining Congress
For over 60 years the World Mining Congress has served as the pre-eminent gathering of the global mining and resources industry.
In 2023, this prestigious international event will be held in Australia for the first time. Australia has developed a strong reputation as a leading industrialised country supplying a wide range of minerals, energy and mining services to the global market. The World Mining Congress presents a unique opportunity for international representatives of the world’s leading resource economies to meet, find new partners, discuss current challenges, and share the latest research, technology and best practice.
Australia’s internationally renowned national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is the proud host of the 26th World Mining Congress (WMC 2023).
With 5,500 talented people working at over 50 sites across Australia and internationally, CSIRO is one of the largest and most diverse research organisations in the world.
They are in the top 1% of global research institutions for 15 of 22 scientific discipline fields and in the top 0.1% for four fields including geosciences and environment & ecology. CSIRO is a world leader in resource research, working in partnership with industry, government, OEMs, METS and universities in Australia and overseas, and delivers breakthrough innovation across the mining value chain. CSIRO has a proud track record of industry innovation. Among CSIRO’s many inventions, our sensing and automation technologies have removed mine workers from hazardous areas and resulted in significant productivity increases.
Addressing the industry’s greatest challenges, CSIRO’s research aims to benefit Australia and the world by growing the resource base, improving safety and productivity, and driving social and environmental performance through innovative science and technology.
Dr Hua Guo is a mining engineer with more than 30 years experience in both mining operations and R&D, including three years with Pasminco’s underground mining operations at Broken Hill, six years with BHP Iron Ore’s surface mining operations in the Pilbara, and 23 years at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency.
At CSIRO, Hua has held a number of senior leadership roles and is currently the Research Director for Sustainable Mining Technologies involving 70+ specialists. He is responsible for strategic planning and delivering R&D in mining geosciences and engineering, production technologies, environmental sustainability and emissions abatement. Under his leadership, world leading technologies have been successfully developed and adopted in Australia and overseas, with substantial benefits delivered. CSIRO is recognised internationally as a leading force in mining technology and innovation.
Hua is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Internationally he serves on the Global Methane Initiative, the International Organising Committee of the World Mining Congress (WMC), and is Chair for the 26th World Mining Congress in 2023, Brisbane, Australia.
Congress Chair
Dr Hua Guo is a mining engineer with more than 30 years experience in both mining operations and R&D, including three years with Pasminco’s underground mining operations at Broken Hill, six years with BHP Iron Ore’s surface mining operations in the Pilbara, and 23 years at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency.
At CSIRO, Hua has held a number of senior leadership roles and is currently the Research Director for Sustainable Mining Technologies involving 70+ specialists. He is responsible for strategic planning and delivering R&D in mining geosciences and engineering, production technologies, environmental sustainability and emissions abatement. Under his leadership, world leading technologies have been successfully developed and adopted in Australia and overseas, with substantial benefits delivered. CSIRO is recognised internationally as a leading force in mining technology and innovation.
Hua is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland, Australia and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Internationally he serves on the Global Methane Initiative, the International Organising Committee of the World Mining Congress (WMC), and is Chair for the 26th World Mining Congress in 2023, Brisbane, Australia.
Managing Director, ICMS Australasia
Emma has been involved in the Events Management industry for over 17 years with proven successful outcomes in managing staff and suppliers. Emma has personally managed some of Australia’s largest and most prestigious conferences; winning Event of the Year on three separate occasions for events under her Directorship. Emma has been contracted to Federal and State Governments, the United Nations Department of Public Information, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a number of the world’s leading Association’s during her career.
As the Owner and Managing Director of ICMS Australasia (ICMSA), Emma has the overall responsibility for the success of ICMSA concerning growth, external engagement and management of senior personnel. Emma drives the strategic direction of the organisation, building the reputation and legacy of ICMS Australasia
Emma has led numerous overseas delegations on behalf of ICMSA clients, facilitating trade negotiations, optimising existing networks whilst also establishing new ones. Her business acumen has been successfully applied to the procurement of $20 million of sponsorship funds on behalf of our clients over the past five years. Emma has a strong focus on ensuring client policy is delivered, governance and risks are managed and oversees project from end-to-end.
Emma consults actively within the Business Events Industry and is the Lead Relationship Manager for Tourism Australia, Destination NSW, Business Events Sydney, the Melbourne Convention Bureau and the Brisbane Convention Partnership managed by the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Emma was nominated by the leading industry magazine micenet as one of 20 Exceptional Women in Business Events, demonstrating the high respect she commands in the industry.
Chair, Program Committee
Professor Michael Hood is an internationally-recognised leader developing and commercialising new mining and energy technologies. He was a tenured academic at UC, Berkeley, moving to Australia to take up a new role, CEO of CRCMining. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) and a Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Chair, Sponsorship & Exhibition Committee
Charlie worked as a mining professional and senior executive for more than 30 years in the global mining industry, culminating in a role as CEO of Xstrata Copper, one of the world's leading copper companies. Over the past decade Charlie has taken on non-executive director roles in various Australian and international listed companies and not-for-profit organisations. He is a Fellow of the AusIMM and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.
Tourism & Events Queensland
Mineral Resources | CSIRO
Chairman, WMC IOC
Dean, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Resource Management
AGH University of Science and Technology
Poland
Professor Marek Cała has been at AGH University of Science & Technology, Cracow, Poland since 1992. He received his MSc and PhD in Mining Engineering from AGH UST in 1992 and 1997. Since 2016 he is a Dean of the Faculty of Mining & Geoengineering (the oldest in Poland, established 1919). He teaches rock engineering and geotechnical engineering for undergraduate and graduate students.
His research focus on application of numerical methods for solving several problems of rock and soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Marek Cała research areas cover very interdisciplinary cases and he supervised over 120 PhD, MSc and U/G students and research scientists. His main research areas are: (i) application of 2D and 3D numerical methods to analyse slope stability in open pit mines, (ii) stability of underground openings in natural hazard conditions (rockburst, gas and rock outburst, seismic), (iii) interaction of rock mass and support for mining openings and civil tunnels, (iv) stability of underground salt caverns (including salt mines and storage caverns for hydrocarbon), (v) revitalisation and reclamation of degraded areas (brownfields).
Professor Marek Cała scientific achievements constitute over 200 scientific articles, books and reports and over 300 scientific studies, expert opinions and projects for national and world industry (he also has 2 patents). He is also an active reviewers for journals, conferences and granting agencies.
He is a Chairman of the International Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress since 2016. He’s e member of International Society of Rock Mechanics and International Association of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Marek Cała is a member of Scientific Committees of several national (Polish) and international conferences. He is a main organizer (since 1996) of Winter School of Rock Mechanics which celebrates XLIII edition in 2021.
Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
Chief Scientist of GRINM Group
China
Xiaowei Huang, an expert in rare earth metallurgy, is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), an academician of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials Science, the chief scientist of GRINM Group Co., LTD., and the director of the National Engineering Research Center for Rare Earths.
For more than 30 years, she has been engaged in metallurgy of rare earth mineral, separation and purification of rare earth elements, research and application of rare earth materials. A number of green and low-carbon patented technologies have been invented, such as new technology for non-saponified extraction and separation of rare earth elements, integration technology of ion adsorption rare earth ore leaching and extraction, and the Magnesium Bicarbonate Method metallurgy and separation of rare earths, etc.. These patented technologies have been applied into more than 40 rare earth enterprises to solve the pollution problems of ammonia-nitrogen wastewater and radioactive waste residue from the source, greatly improving the resource utilization rate, reducing the consumption and the cost of raw materials, as well as producing remarkable economic and social benefits. Her innovative achievements have won 1 second prize of National Technology Invention Award, 1 second prize and 1 third prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, more than 10 first prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels. She has been granted 82 invention patents (23 abroad) and published more than 200 papers. She has won successively the honorary titles of China’s first session “Outstanding Engineer Award”, “National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Research Worker”, “National Innovation Competition Award” and so on.
Stonie Barker Professor, Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering
Virginia Tech
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dr. Michael Karmis has served 44 years at Virginia Tech, as the Stonie Barker Professor of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering and the Director of the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research (VCCER). His expertise is in the areas of geomechanics and mine systems, health and safety, carbon management and the sustainable development of energy and mineral resources. He has authored/co-authored over 180 scientific papers and directed more than 62 major projects, funded by federal and state agencies, foundations and the private sector.
Dr. Karmis served as the 2002 President of Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) and the 2008 President of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). He was elected as the 2002 President of the Society of Mining Professors (SOMP)-Societät der Bergbaukunde, and served from 2005 to 2012 as the Society’s Secretary General. He serves as President of the Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health, Inc.
A Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the USA, a Eur Ing in Europe and a SME Competent Person, Dr. Karmis is an active consultant with the mining and energy industries. He is recognized as an Honorary Member of AIME and a Distinguished Member of SME and has received numerous awards and recognitions by major scientific, educational, professional and industrial organizations.
Board Member of TNC
Senior WMC IOC Member
Turkey
Board Member
International Women in Mining (IWiM)
Australia
Honorary Professorial Fellow
School of Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong
Australia
Director Technical
Eastern Coal Fields Ltd.(ECL),CIL.
India
Profesor Titular
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
CEO
Mongolian Mining Designers Association
Mongolia
Gerente General
Minera Almax
Peru
Chairperson
Scientific and Technical Union of Mining, Geology and Metallurgy
Bulgaria
Consulting Professor of Mineral Economics
Luleå University of Technology
Sweden
Executive Director
J Mendo Consultant
Brazil
President
Northeastern University
China
President
China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing)
China
President
South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM)
Republic of South Africa
President
Institute of Mining Engineers Peru (IIMP)
Peru
Academy of Engineering Sciences of Montenegro
Montenegro
Webster Chair Professor
Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University
Canada
Head, Department of Mineral Policy
Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism
Austria
Chairman
China Coal Technology & Engineering Group (CCTEG)
China
Specially Appointed Professor
Endowed Research Laboratory of Un-mined Mineral Resources and Energy Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology
Japan
Executive Director
CSIRO Chile
Chile
Mining Engineer
DEKRA Arbeit Group
Macedonia
Deputy Chairman of TNC
WMC IOC Member
Turkey
Chairman
Association of Indonesian Mining Professionals (PERHAPI)
Indonesia
Director
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
India
Partner
McKinsey & Company
Singapore
Senior Advisor
Tetra Tech Inc.
United States of America
President
Anhui University of Science & Technology
China
President and Vice-Chancellor
Surrey University
United Kingdom
Chief Executive
Qld Resources Council
Australia
President of the Board of Directors
Cluster Portugal Mineral Resources
Portugal
Deputy Director
International Center for Research and Education on Mineral and Energy Resources
Japan
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mining Engineering, West Virginia University
United States of America
Deputy Head (Research)
School of Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering, Wollongong University
Australia
Associate Professor in Rock Mechanics
Aalto University
Finland
Chairman
Indonesian Society Economic Geologists (MGEI)
Indonesia
General Manager
Coal Processing & Handling Division, PT Kaltim Prima Coal
Indonesia
Secretary General WMC IOC
Chief Specialist
Central Mining Institute
Poland
Executive Director General
China National Coal Association
China
Professor
School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University
Kazakhstan
Professor
Vice-Chairman, WMC IOC
Austria
Director
Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG), University of Western Australia
Australia
President
University of Science and Technology Beijing
China
Professor
Monash University
Australia
Vice President
China University of Mining & Technology (Xuzhou)
China
Further members will be added once confirmed.
