On October 21 the baton of the World Mining Congress will be passed to Kazakhstan
October 17, 2016 Almaty. From October 18 to 21, 2016 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) will host the 24th World Mining Congress and Specialized Exhibition for Mining Equipment and Technologies XXIV World Mining Congress & Expo 2016 (WMC). According to the press-service of the World Mining Congress more than 4,500 professionals from around the world will participate in this event.
On October 21 in the framework of the event the solemn transfer of the baton to Kazakhstan for the right to hold the World Mining Congress which will take place in Astana in 2018, will be held. The Kazakh delegation will include the representatives of the government institutions of Kazakhstan, as well as the large specialized companies of MMC. “Holding the World Mining Congress in Kazakhstan in 2018 will contribute, above all, to revealing the investment potential of the mining industry, attracting global companies and junior companies. Mining and Metallurgical Congress AMM has been already held seven times in Astana, so we have gained good experience in hosting international events of this scale”,- said Albert Rau, First Vice Minister of Investments and Development of Kazakhstan, Deputy Chairman of the National Organising Committee of the WMC 2018.
Kazakhstan delegation will take part in bilateral meetings with the leaders of the world’s mining companies and mining institutes and universities, as part of which the discussion of possible joint projects and interaction in the sphere of science will be held. There will also be a closed meeting of the IOC WMC, which the potential of Kazakhstan’s MMC and the stages of preparation for the WMC 2018 will be presented in.
In addition, the purpose of the visit of Kazakhstan delegation to Rio de Janeiro was also the expansion of cooperation with international partners and attracting global mining business and science in Kazakhstan.
We would like to remind that in 2013 in Montreal the meeting of the 23rd World Mining Congress took place, one of the agenda items of which was the application of Kazakhstan for holding the 25th World Mining Congress in Astana in 2018. The members of the Organizing Committee of the Congress unanimously voted in favour of Kazakhstan’s request.