Anything that has to do with mining engineering and the use of software is just ripe for startups, getting the industry to adopt thought is a different story.

What are the biggest challanges for the mining engineering industry?

Safety critical equipment needs safety critical software.

You also need to provide machines and software for cheaper than a human life. Human life has a distressingly low value in several mining industries.

So you see the biggest challenges in the machines and execution of the work, rather than in the planning?

The public French school boards tend to have lower passing rates in maths and sciences then the public English boards though, chalk it up to the shit-show you need to be allowed to learn in English or whatever else might be at play. But the math and science reforms that Quebec implemented 8 years torpedoed basic math and science proficiency across the board.