The industrial incubatorMining tech entrepreneur Shelby Yee on the productive potential of startups and miners working together

Mining tech entrepreneur Shelby Yee on the productive potential of startups and miners working together

By Carolyn Gruske

November 13, 2019

Courtesy of Shelby Yee

Shelby Yee has launched her career with one foot in the mining world and one in the tech startup realm, and it is that experience that has shaped her belief that the two sectors have a lot to offer the other.

Yee, who graduated in 2016 with a bachelors of applied science in geological engineering from Queen’s University, is co-founder and CEO of RockMass Technologies Inc., a Toronto-based company that offers a data-collection solution to help mining companies better understand rock mechanics.

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