7 A Program Designed for the Challenges Ahead The World Mining Congress has, since its founding in 1958, served as the principal forum in which the global mining community examines itself — its achievements, its failures, and its obligations. The 2026 program in Lima is, by any measure, among the most ambitious and wide-ranging in the Congress's history: 266 presentations, nine tracks, contributors from more than 70 countries, and a host nation whose own mining story is inseparable from the global story of the energy transition. The Technical Program Committee has sought to ensure that this program is both technically rigorous and genuinely useful to practitioners. Sessions have been structured to create dialogue between disciplines that too rarely meet: between exploration geologists and AI researchers, between tailings engineers and biodiversity specialists, between indigenous community representatives and mine closure planners. The Andean Flagship Sessions ensure that the perspectives of the host continent are not merely welcomed but central to the program’s intellectual architecture. Jef Caers Stanford University Technical Program Chair World Mining Congress 2026.Lima, Peru
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