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• The 2024 AGM (34th Annual General Meeting) was held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, between 05 and 11 September in 2024, under the leadership of Professor Serkan Saydam. It included a two-day field trip visiting two underground mines (5th and 6th September 2024), council and committee meetings (8th September 2024), and a three-day conference (9th to 11th September 2024). The meeting was attended by 124 registrants, including 97 academics (82 SOMP members) and 12 accompanying persons from 20 countries representing 42 universities and 21 institutions. The 2024 AGM was organized in coordination with the International Future Mining Conference (which was held from September 2 to 4), hosted by UNSW and AusIMM. Click here for the 2024 AGM promotional video. Click here for the first circular and here for the second circular. Click here for the detailed conference program. Click here for the electronic proceedings. For pictures, click here.
• The 2023 AGM (33rd Annual General Meeting) was held in Clausthal, Germany, under the leadership of Prof. Oliver Langefeld. The meeting was held between September 11 and September 16, 2023. Council and committee meetings were held in the town of Goslar. The meeting was attended by 79 SOMP and 12 non-SOMP members from 20 countries representing 7 companies and 45 universities. There were a total of seven mine visits organized over a two-day period preceding the conference. Click here for the meeting announcement (2022). Click here for the first circular. Click here for the meeting schedule and here for the detailed conference program. For pictures, click here.
• The 2022 AGM (32nd Annual General Meeting) was held in Windhoek, Namibia, between September 11 and September 14, 2022, under the leadership of Assoc. Prof. Harmony Musiyarira. It included a three-day program (Sept 12-14, 2021) with council and committee meetings held on Sept 11, 2021. There was also a post-conference mine visit. The meeting was held in a hybrid format. The meeting was attended by a total of 68 participants, which included 56 SOMP members. There were 51 in-person attendees and 17 online attendees representing 13 countries. The mine visit was attended by 33 participants, which included 23 SOMP members. The announcement is availalble here. The first circular is available here. The final program is available here. For pictures, click here.
• The 2021 AGM (31st Annual General Meeting) was held in Medellin, Colombia, from September 21 through September 24, 2021. The meeting was co-hosted by the School of Mines at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and AIMC (Asociación de Profesionales del Sector Minero Colombiano – Colombian mining sector professionals) under the leadership of Prof. Oscar Jaime Restrepo Baena. It included a three-day program (Sept 22-24, 2021) with council and committee meetings held on Sept 21, 2021. In addition, it included a number of technical tours before and after the meeting. This is the first meeting that was held in hybrid mode, i.e. participants in Medellin interfaced through Zoom with participants from all over the world in different time zones. The meeting was attended by 66 in-person participants and 68 online participants representing 19 countries. For the final program, click here. For pictures click here.
• The 2019 AGM (30th Annual General Meeting) was held in Bochum, Germany, between June 29 and July 5, 2019.  The meeting was hosted by the TH Georg Agricola University under the leadership of Prof. Jürgen Kretschmann. It included a three-day program (1‐3 July, 2019) with a plenary session on the morning of the first day of technical meeting. It also included technical tours in the Ruhr Area on the 4th and 5th of July, 2019. The meeting was attended by a record number of 110 participants,  where Germany was represented by 29 participants, the USA was represented by 11 participants and Australia was represented by 9 participants. There was a total of 30 countries represented in the meeting. The final program is available here. For pictures click here.
• The 2018 AGM (29th Annual General Meeting) was held in Beijing, China between July 3 and July 6, 2018. The meeting was hosted under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, the People's Republic of China, and co-hosted by the University of Science and Technology Beijing, the China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), and the North China Institute of Science and Technology, under the leadership of Professor Zhongxue Li.  The first circular can be accessed here. The second circular can be accessed here. The third circular can be accessed here.  Instructions for hotel registration can be accessed here. For pictures click here. A short youtube video, tribute to the outgoing Secretary General, Prof. Bruce Hebblewhite, is available here.
• The 2017 AGM (28th Annual General Meeting) was held in Torino, Italy, in July 2017. The final conference program can be accessed here. For pictures click here.
• The 2016 AGM (27th Annual General Meeting) was held in Washington DC, USA in September 2016. The final conference program can be accessed here. For pictures click here.
• The 2015 AGM (26th Annual General Meeting) was held in Freiberg, Germany, in June 2015.  The final conference program can be accessed here. For pictures click here.
• The 2014 AGM (25th Annual General Meeting) was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 2014. For pictures click here.
• The 2013 AGM (24th Annual General Meeting) was held in Milos, Greece, in June 2013. For pictures click here.
• The 2012 AGM was held in Wroclaw, Poland. For pictures, click here.
• The 2011 AGM was held in Arequipa, Peru. For pictures, click here.
• The 2010 AGM was held in Tallinn, Estonia. For pictures, click here.
• The 2009 AGM was held in Sydney, Australia. For pictures, click here.
• The 2008 AGM was held in Aachen, Germany. For pictures, click here.
• The 2007 AGM was held in Belgrade, Serbia. For pictures, click here.
• The 2006 AGM was held in Kosice, Slovak Republic. For pictures, click here.
• The 2005 AGM was held in Ankara Turkey. For pictures, click here.
• The 2004 AGM was held in Freiburg, Germany. For pictures, click here.
• The 2003 AGM was held in Milos, Greece. For pictures, click here.
• The 2002 AGM was held in Petrosani, Romania. For pictures, click here.

Other Meetings

• In December 2003 a Joint meeting was held with AISMIN (Asociacion Iberoamericana de Ensenanza Superior de la Mineria) in Madrid Spain.