The modern mine: How digitization is transforming industry from pit to port

Modern mining is a sophisticated, science-based activity that takes excellent care of the environment. In the 1990s, Nova Scotia started doing environmental assessments and better-regulating industrial projects to protect the environment. For example, a mine’s environmental assessment often takes 3-5 years of baseline, feasibility and design studies and costs are routinely in the millions of dollars. It generates dozens of scientific studies and governments often ask for even more studies and da