Pit Info

Pit Info is a mine production tracking and reconciliation software. Pit Info ensures metal accounting compliance by tracking each tonne from the ore source right through to the waste dumps or processing plant. All transactions are recorded to ensure the highest level of database accuracy and trust. Pit Info was designed for Mining and Geology managers who believe in transparent metal accounting and reconciliation.

A dashboard with tables and waterfall charts showing data on tonnage, grade, and ounces related to mining reconciliation metrics.

The problem

Production tracking and reconciliation are difficult processes that involve multiple data sources and convoluted processes that often rely on Excel.

Manual entry errors
Convoluted and unauditable formulas
No validation can cause metal imbalances when reconciling

Average number of sources of data to reconcile monthly production: 9
Departments with input into reconciliation process: 5
Out of 10 spreadsheets contain an error: 8

One stope, seven estimates of the same metal
Estimate or measurement	Difference from the resource model, contained ounces
Resource model20,000t @ 10.00 g/t — 6,430 oz		—
Grade control model21,000t @ 9.50 g/t — 6,413 oz		−17
Reserve model22,000t @ 9.00 g/t — 6,365 oz		−65
Final stope design18,000t @ 11.00 g/t — 6,365 oz		−65
Plant crushed21,000t @ 8.50 g/t — 5,738 oz		−692
Sold metal21,000t @ 8.65 g/t — 5,840 oz		−590

Worked example from Introduction to Mine Reconciliation. Reading the gap between these estimates is what Pit Info automates.

Our solution

Control and visibility over claimed and reconciled production, mined and milled, in one platform.

Surveys, density measurements, resampling, and EOM metal production all have flow through effects on claimed production going from the final product back to the ore source. Pit Info handles all of it, and executives and managers report from one auditable set of numbers.

Pit Info dashboard, with mined BCM for yesterday, week, month and year to date, three-month availability for excavators, trucks and drills, material status for drilled, blasted and stockpiled inventory, daily BCM and tonnes mined charts, an inventory health trend, and downtime breakdowns for excavators, trucks and drills.

What’s in Pit Info

Reconciliation

Reconciliation is made easy with Pit Info. Configurable end-of-month workflows give managers the ease of mind that processes are being followed.

Any positive or negative variance with tonnage or metal can be back allocated to ore sources. Mined, surveyed and milled tonnes are measured and compared the same way every month, which removes ambiguity and reduces contractor disputes.

A reconciliation workflow where metal variance is attributed to ore sources.

Geology & Mining

Pit Info captures, analyzes and reports on everything related to geology and mining.

Out-of-the-box, track tonnes, grade and contained metal, dilution and ore loss at the dig block level, with full visibility on movements from ore sources and stockpiles. Compliance to plan and dilution show up early, before the ore reaches the mill.

Dig blocks at an open pit mining operation showing average dilution and ore loss as well as truck movements from each dig block.

Stockpiles

Real-time stockpile balances and grade tracking. Pit Info records every stockpile movement, feeding strategy and density update, so the figures stand up to financial audits and quarterly reporting starts from what actually sits in inventory.

Pit Info stockpile register, listing each stockpile with its location, material, grade bin, tonnes, grade, contained ounces and feeding strategy, with actions to update the feeding strategy or add a stockpile measurement or adjustment.

Reporting

Customizable daily, monthly and year-to-date reports cover compliance to forecast, call factors and dilution trends, exportable to Excel, PDF, Word and CSV.

Pre-configured reports give more confidence in the numbers reported to market.

Mobile Plant

Pit Info tracks plant performance: downtime, utilization, availability, and productivity, so managers have a clear view of operations at all times.

Teams can find and address bottlenecks, maximize uptime, and improve overall productivity.

A web interface for managing downtime, with a pop-up form titled 'Create Downtime' containing fields for start and end date/time, plant selection, downtime type, and comments, alongside a navigation sidebar and data table in the background.

Key benefits

Customizable warnings and error checks that follow your site’s own logic
Reports scheduled and distributed automatically, as PDF, Excel or CSV
Every entry time-stamped and traceable to the user who made it
Strict workflows with built-in checks and approvals
Integration with Power BI and third-party software
A company-wide source of truth for production data, with 99.9% availability guaranteed for cloud-hosted options

Results

Over a month of work saved each year

The time saved from using Pit Info represents over a month of work each year.

Gold operation dilution case

$1.7M revenue loss avoided by detecting issues earlier.

What changes when reconciliation leaves the workbook

Excel vs Pit Info
Excel	Pit Info
Difficult to validate calculated values and requires lots of manual work.	Preconfigured and customizable warnings and errors for data input and calculated values
Only possible to see reconciliation factors at the pit or stage level	View the effect of stockpile surveys, and metal reconciliation down to individual truck movements
Excel is an inherently flexible software that does a poor job of enforcing work to be done in a certain order or way.	Configured workflows ensure that reconciliations happen as they should, including double checks and signoffs.
No visibility into who did what when	All transactions are recorded, including timestamps and user responsible. 100% clarity on people’s past roles in EOM.
Excel creates only static reports that can generate few insights	Pit Info is configurable to include dashboards or static reports. We allow third-party connection via API or direct to DB

Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022
24/7 support for urgent requests
Support in English, French and Russian
Founded in Toronto, 2021

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