Imagine for a moment that you are a C-suite executive at one of the world’s largest mining companies. You have a very large but oddly shaped ore body that will prove challenging to mine successfully while maintaining the balance of profit, people safety, and compliance with environmental regulations. Normally, your leadership team would study a few options and hopefully pick the best one, knowing that you have limited options if something goes wrong after you start the mining process. However, these traditional approaches are changing as we now live in the age of the metaverse.