Last date for submission of paper: 01-Feb-2020; Contact person: unknown; The conference provides a platform for professionals involved in Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal to exchange knowledge and gain an insight into the state of the art in the current technology, techniques and solutions in Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal as they have been developed and applied in different countries. Participants include a wide variety of stakeholders from research and academia, to industrial sectors as well as government organizations.