In order to achieve de goals of ASGMI, and in accordance to Article 3 of Statutes, the Association includes as one of its mail activities to promote scientific, technical and information meetings, in different areas such as geology, mining, groundwater, active geological process, environment and similar areas”.
Since 2006 ASGMI is organizing different meetings, seminar and workshops with several objectives: the knowledge-sharing and scientific and technical information exchange; sharing experience and strategies related to the different activites specific to Geological Survey; the discussion and preparation of handbook etc.
One of the results of main interest of this meetings has been the preparation of the Manual Inventory of Mining environmental liabilities , approved for implementation by the ASGMI Geological Surveys, in the XVI Ordinary General Assembly held in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, in march 2010.
On many occasions, these ASGMI meetings had the economical support of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and they have been held in the training centers of the Agency in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; and Antigua, Guatemala.
Besides General Assembly and in occasions as a part of the Assembley, the following meetings and courses have taken place: