MiningWorld Russia 2026 confirms its status as the key exhibition for the mining industry
In the anniversary season, the exhibition once again confirmed its status as one of the main industry platforms for the professional community. According to the official independent exhibition audit, MiningWorld Russia brought together 10,354 specialists from 79 regions of Russia and 34 countries of the world. The exhibition was attended by 515 companies from 16 countries, including 202 new participants.
The exposition occupied 30,000 square meters and covered 12 thematic sections reflecting the key areas of the mining industry. The Territory of Heavy Equipment exposition traditionally attracted special attention of visitors, in which 43 companies demonstrated more than 50 units of large-sized equipment live.
The exhibition was held with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation) and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation).
Exposition: industry leaders at one site
Among the 515 exhibitors of the anniversary season, there were both the largest companies that present their solutions at the exhibition annually, and new participants.
Among the regular participants: AYMAK CRUSHING & SCREENING MACHINES, Chongqing UG Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd, Hansy Mining Co., Ltd, LIMING HEAVY INDUSTRY, SHANDONG DERUI MACHINERY CO. LTD, ALMAZGEOBUR, AltaiBurMash, Drilling Equipment Plant, BMH RUS, Geomash, Gormash Global, Mining Machines, AST Group of Companies, DORING, IZTM, ISTK, Metalist, NPO Akonit, STC Bakor, Newfoton, OJSC BELAZ, Omsk Grinding Ball Plant, ORYX, Power International Tires, POMBUR, Professional, RIVS, TYAZHMASH, EVOBLAST and others.
In addition, the exhibition team annually works to replenish the exposition. Debutants in 2026 were 202 companies, including: Anzheromash, Arctic Mining, Atomic Soft, Vega-GAZ, Vectis Minerals, PIR Group of Companies, PSM Plant, Izmercon, Rudprom, RUSTEK, Rustorg, TECHNOLINK, FORUS, Electronmash and many others.
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In 2026, 49% of the participants were manufacturing companies and suppliers from Russia. The rest of the participants represented Brazil, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Mongolia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, South Africa and Uzbekistan.
For the first time, the Samara Region took part in the exhibition in the format of a collective exposition, presented by the companies Samara Plant Strommashina, Srednevolzhskaya Land Management Company (GK SVZK), TPK BRIK.
New technologies and solutions for the mining industry
At the exhibition site, the participants presented new developments in the field of beneficiation, automation, engineering, drilling and heavy equipment. Among the premieres are an X-ray transmission separator from ERGA, low-voltage equipment with AR technology from Electronmash, engineering solutions for mining projects from BMH RUS and the Alpha software platform for industrial automation from Atomic Soft.
A significant part of the new products was presented at the exposition "Territory of Heavy Equipment", these were drilling rigs, underground machines, dump trucks, tunneling equipment and other large-sized equipment.
Among the notable exhibits are JK Drilling drilling rigs from POMBUR, STELLAR underground equipment from Gormash Global, ZEGA R880L rig from AltaiBurMash, tunneling and drilling equipment from ISTK, new generation mine pickups from AST Group of Companies, as well as a ZBO S15E self-propelled drilling rig with elements of artificial intelligence from the Drilling Equipment Plant.
Visitors of the exhibition
In the anniversary year, the exhibition was visited by 10,354 specialists from 79 regions of Russia and 34 countries.
The top 10 regions represented by the visitors: Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kemerovo regions, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Novosibirsk, Belgorod, Rostov regions, the Republic of Bashkortostan, and the top 10 countries: Russia, China, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, India, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Italy and Germany.
The high interest in the exhibition from the professional audience is confirmed by the purpose of the visit: 80% of visitors came to MiningWorld Russia in search of new products and services (according to the MiningWorld Russia 2026 visitor survey).
The exhibition attracts a high-quality industry audience due to its clear profile: among the visitors are representatives of coal mining, gold mining, ore mining, geological exploration, beneficiation, as well as managers and technical specialists of various levels - from general and executive directors to chief engineers, chief technologists and mining directors.
The visitor audience of the exhibition in 2026 has been updated by 51%. A survey of visitors to MiningWorld Russia 2026 showed that 53% of visitors do not attend events with similar topics. This means that the exhibition attracts not just a large, but a unique and difficult to reach audience at other venues.
The exhibition is held in Moscow, the decision-making center where about 100 mining and metallurgical companies are registered, including the head offices and management companies of the largest industry players.
Among the visitors to the exhibition in 2026 are representatives of such companies as ALROSA, APATIT (PHOSAGRO), GV GOLD, Karalveem Mine, SUEK-Kuzbass, East Mining Company, MMC Norilsk Nickel, EVRAZ, Eurochem, Mangazeya Mining, MMK, NLMK, Nordgold, UMMC, Pavlik, Mechel, TMK, Severstal, Ural Steel Trading House, Kuzbassrazrezugol Management Company, Polyus Management Company, Sibanthracite Management Company, Metalloinvest Management Company, Elga Management Company and others.
Official visits to MiningWorld Russia 2026 were:
// Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Mikhail Ivanov;
// Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy Dmitry Vorona;
// a delegation from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, headed by Counsellor Mr. Zhou Hao;
// Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Peru to the Russian Federation His Excellency Mr. Manuel Augusto de Cossio Klüver.
"MiningWorld Russia is developing along with the industry: we attract new participants, strengthen marketing support and work on the quality of the visitor audience. It is important for us that the exhibition remains not just a meeting place for the market, but an effective business development tool for companies operating in the mining sector," said Marina Chelak, Director of the exhibition.
Business Programme: Main Industry Trends
As part of the business program of the exhibition, 21 events were held. 134 speakers spoke, including representatives of top management and heads of departments from AIM MANAGEMENT, ALROSA, AREAL, Eurochem, Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Plant, Metalloinvest, Mechel, NordGold, Norilsk Nickel, Pavlik, Polymetal, POLYUS, Raspadskaya Coal Company, Rosatom Nedra, Rosgeologia, Russian Copper Company, Severstal, Ural Steel and others.
At conferences and sessions, topical issues of the industry, trends in the management of mining enterprises were discussed, successful cases of digital transformation, robotization and the use of AI were shared.
The business program began with the presentation of a joint study by Zyfra Group, the consulting company Kept and the MiningWorld Russia exhibition. The main conclusion of the study is that digitalization is fragmentary, and not everyone is ready to go into new digital projects.
"End-to-end digitalization is a matter of the future for companies. Today, a limited number of enterprises have it. This is due to the long implementation and payback period, with outdated infrastructure, which does not allow for comprehensive end-to-end digitalization. Somewhere there is a lack of competencies. Somewhere there are restrictions in the legislation," said Igor Korotetsky, Partner, Head of the Engineering Department at Kept.
The plenary session of the Mining Industry Leaders Forum was opened by Mikhail Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. He noted that the mining industry is one of the key industries in the Russian economy and confirmed that the state is ready to set up support tools and contribute in every possible way to the implementation of projects.
"In recent years, we have significantly expanded our support tools to bring new products to market. Today, we already have well-established mechanisms for interaction with mining enterprises: together we form up-to-date roadmaps. Everything that appears on the mining equipment market today with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade meets modern requirements and can be competitive not only in Russia, but also abroad, including among our closest neighbors," said Mikhail Ivanov.
The key events of the 2026 business programme were:
// VII Mining Industry Leaders Forum
// Main plenary discussion of mining industry leaders
// Business battle "Digital VS production: who makes decisions and what to invest in?"
// Practical Session "Robotic Technologies in the Mining Industry: From Pilots to Mass Implementation"
// MINING MES: user dialogue, integration experience, search for points of system development
Expert conferences and round tables were also held:
// Conference "Gold and Technology 2025: In Search of Sustainable Development"
// Conference "Tools for Improving the Efficiency of Concentrators"
// Round Table "Strategic Guidelines for the Coal Industry in Turbulent Conditions"
// Round Table "Leadership in OHS: Synergy of Production and Safety"
// Round table "Experience in solving personnel issues by industrial companies"
// Conference "Digital Technologies and Automation of Drilling and Blasting"
For the first time, 5 events were successfully held:
// Cybergeology. Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence in Mining and Exploration
// Round Table on Commerce in Mining and Metallurgy
// Round table of marketers "How to promote complex industrial products?"
// The play "STEELWORKERS" as a gift from the Theater of Labor for the 30th anniversary of the exhibition
// A conversation about the work of Alyona Lazko, the creator of the Theater of Labor, with Tatyana Zhuravleva, the general director of the Melnichenko Foundation
The co-organizer of the Forum is Zyfra Group. Session partners: Kronstadt and SPETSVMTEKH.
MiningWorld Connect Digital Business Community
In the anniversary year, the organiser of the exhibition, ITE, launched MiningWorld Connect, a digital business community for mining professionals. The community helps to expand the network of business contacts and stay in touch with the industry 365 days a year.
During the exhibition, the MiningWorld Connect team actively worked on the site: they filmed vivid reports directly at the stands of participating companies and recorded exclusive interviews with representatives of mining enterprises and leading industry experts in a TV studio together with one of the largest multimedia holdings in Russia — RBC. Among the guests of the studio:
// Tatyana Goncharenko, Deputy Head of the International Cooperation Department of ALROSA;
// Mikhail Zusman, CEO and Founder of PIR;
// Ekaterina Belinskaya, IT Business Partner in Production, ALROSA IT;
// Yuri Berezovsky, Deputy General Director of NordGold Management, Executive Director of the Taborny Mine;
// Alexey Rylnikov, General Director of B2-Group;
// Alexander Baikin, Head of Robotics at CT&P LLC (EuroChem);
// Yan Lupandin, Project Portfolio Manager, MMC Norilsk Nickel;
// Galina Belyaeva, Leading Specialist of the Nordgold Procurement Department and many others.
All interviews from the exhibition can be viewed in the MiningWorld Connect app community here.
Also, the MiningWorld Connect mobile application helped both visitors and participants to optimize business processes during the exhibition thanks to the services for exchanging contacts (lead scanning) and scheduling meetings (matchmaking). Both services are annually available to all visitors and exhibitors free of charge in the desktop and mobile versions of MiningWorld Connect.
Support for the exhibition and business program
Partners of the business program sessions: MTS PJSC, Kronstadt Company, SPETSVMTECH LLC, Mekhanobr Engineering, Passat Scientific and Production Association.
// The general information partner of the exhibition is the international scientific and technical journal "Mining Industry"
// General Internet Partner and Strategic Information Partner — Mining Industry Magazine
// Leading partner for CIS countries — Globus magazine
// Exclusive media partner - business newspaper "Our Region - Far East" and business portal NEDRADV
// Industry information partner — industry portal "Energy and Industry of Russia"
// The technology media partner is the information and analytical publication TECHNOmagazine
Information support for the exhibition is provided by: the magazine "Industrialist of Siberia", the magazine "Technical Council Premium", the magazine "Coal", the magazine/portal "Special Equipment and Transport", the publication "Mining Journal", the publication "Monocle", the publishing house "Mining Book", the Profiminer portal, the MISIS University and others.