A life cycle-based, sustainability-driven innovation approach in the minerals industry: Application to a large-scale granitic quarry in Rio de Janeiro

•Innovation is key to improving the environmental performance of the mining industry.•Benefits of adopting circularity (open-loop CDW recycling) in mining are exhibited.•Novel LCA scenarios in aggregates production combining state-of-the-art methods.•Mine-to-product simulation assists in reducing epistemic uncertainty in LCA.•Comprehensive and regionalized LCI considering both mine and product life cycles.