Competitions and Award

The Russian Mining Excellence Award competition established by the MINEX forum in 2007 is the premier competition open to national and international companies operating in mining & exploration sector in Russia. The award’s independent committee consisting of the group of seasoned mining professionals helps to access proposed nominations and determine the most outstanding achievements and projects.

The MineMovie Festival is an international competition of short documentary films about companies and people working in the mining, geological and metallurgical industries in Russia and the CIS countries. The content and themes of films may include all elements related to the mining industry e.g. geological exploration, mining and mineral processing, innovative technologies, environmental protection, etc.

The competition of Industry 4.0 solutions for the geological and mining industries held at the Forum will provide a platform for the presentation of the innovations in the field of digitisation, automation and robotisation in the mining industry. The competition is open for the developers of software, automation, robotisation, AI and data processing technologies.

The objective of the competition is to provide a platform for an independent evaluation of early-stage and developing mining projects and to discuss opportunities for their accelerated implementation with the assistance from investors and financial backers. The competition is open to subsoil users, prospecting artels, and individual entrepreneurs developing mining projects in the Russian Federation.