The Global Mining Standards Group, an organization for global mining collaboration on solutions to common industry problems, needs and technology through standards, guidelines and best practices, is pleased to announce the formation of a collaborative relationship with CRCMining.

CRCMining has recently become a sponsor company of GMSG and will drive the formation of the GMSG Collision Avoidance Working Group. CRCMining is the pre-eminent industry-driven centre for global mining research and innovation. Success in the mining industry is becoming increasingly reliant both on innovation and on collaboration and the new partnership between CRCMining and GMSG is reflective of this movement. Through matching synergies, mutual benefits are derived by sharing of best practices and experiences. This collaborative context and new partnership aims to maximize both groups’ capabilities. Tim Skinner, Chairman of GMSG, says” "The partnership with CRCMining provides a unique and powerful opportunity.  The new relationship builds on the mutual strengths of CRCMining and GMSG, and thus creates a strong global complementary team.”

Both groups share a common interest in identifying and introducing tools and practices that optimize operations through improvements to safety, productivity and cost efficiency. Of particular interest to both groups are technologies and processes related to automation, energy efficiency and safety, and are extended to cover underground, surface and hard rock mining.

Membership for both groups is drawn from a vast cross-section of industry stakeholders, with diverse points of view that breed innovation.  Mining companies, equipment manufacturers and tertiary educators are all represented in the membership for each of these groups. “The partnership will bring together mining knowledge and capability of global resources that has not been seen before.  The efforts of CRCMining and GMSG will achieve greater results together than what could be created individually. Simply, the sum of the whole is more impacting than the sum of the individual parts,” explains Skinner.

CRCMining currently concentrates on five research programs: Hard Rock and Surface Mining; Underground Coal Mining; Automation; Energy and Power; and Performance and Reliability. GMSG’s current working groups include Industrial Comminution Efficiency, Situation Awareness, Underground Mining, Data Usage and Access, Onboard Technology and Connectivity and Operational Safety Management, with their newest, Collision Avoidance, expected to be formed with CRCMining’s direction in the coming months. For more information, visit www.globalminingstandards.org