Technologies such as autonomous rail-cars and increased automation can lower the impact of the industry on the environment as well as raise profit margins, the company said.
He has vowed to revisit the country’s controversial glacier protection law, and said his team is working on clear rules for the natural resources sector.
Newcrest is tapping big data and block caving to delve deeper into the earth's crust for mineral riches that just a handful of years ago would have been too costly to extract.
The new bill states that Indigenous peoples have to be included in all decision-making that impacts their rights and that all provincial laws would have to be aligned with UN standards.