01 · HIGHLIGHTTRUCKING
Every truck. Every cycle. Reconciled to the dig block.
Track ore movement from dig block to ROM pad to mill feed. Live truck counts, lost-time statistics, fleet performance graphs, reconciled at month-end.
PRODUCTION DATABASE · MINE-TO-MILL RECONCILIATION
The auditable record of what your minesactually produce.
Pit Info is the production database and reconciliation system for mines. It holds one record across the systems you already run: fleet, mill, lab and block model, configured to your site by mining engineers, geologists and metallurgists, so head office can see, trust and defend production at every site.
- One recordacross fleet, mill, lab and block model
- Per-entryaudit trail, down to the truck
A working session, not a sales deck · NDA before any data moves
THE STATUS QUO · EXCEL AND DISCONNECTED SYSTEMS
A production number that holds up when it's questioned.
Production lives in spreadsheets and a handful of systems that don't talk to each other, so the figure that reaches the board is assembled by hand each month-end. When someone asks how it was derived, the trail runs cold. The damage shows up later, as tonnes and grade that no one, on site or at head office, can fully account for.
WITHOUT PIT INFO → WITH PIT INFO
Head office visibility
The number that reaches the board is carried by corporate but built at site, in a workbook no one else can open. The detail that would explain it never travels with it.
Unaccounted output
Dilution, ore loss, over- and under-loading, floor control against the block model. On most sites these are known to be happening but never quantified, because the data to size them sits across systems that don't reconcile.
Defensibility
When a variance has to be explained, internally or to the market, manual numbers carry no per-entry trail. The site ends up defending figures it can't fully reconstruct, and corporate reports a number it can't fully stand behind.
WHAT PIT INFO IS
A production database first. A reconciliation system on top.
One system, switched on in two stages. Start with the database and single source of truth. Add standardised mine-to-mill reconciliation when the site is ready, on the same record, not a separate tool bolted on.
DATABASE FIRST · RECONCILIATION ON TOPONE SYSTEM
STAGE ONE
Foundation
The production database and single source of truth
- Every system on site ingested into one auditable record
- Per-entry audit trail, down to individual truck movements
- Configurable site reporting and distribution
- Replaces the master workbook everyone is afraid to break
A lower-commitment first step: get production onto one trustworthy record before changing how the month is closed.
STAGE TWO
Complete
Foundation plus mine-to-mill reconciliation
- Standardised reconciliation across pit, mill and lab
- Resource, reserve, mined, ROM, mill, poured, every stage
- Declared vs reconciled, with variance flagged to site tolerance
- Configurable signoff, and a portfolio roll-up for head office
The audit trail and standardised reconciliation that underpin defensible Competent-Person reporting. It is the data layer beneath your public reporting, not a compliance claim.
INSIDE PIT INFO · THE ACTUAL PRODUCT
Not a mock-up. The system running on a live site.
Every screen below is Pit Info in production, configured around one operation's ore body, fleet and flow sheet. The figures are that site's own.
02 · HIGHLIGHTGRADE CONTROL
Performance Summary, block-by-block variance.
Drilling and grade reconciled at every block. Declared vs reconciled tonnes and grade. A performance summary built for public reporting that your Chief Geologist signs.
03 · HIGHLIGHTRECONCILIATION
Gold production, mine-to-mill, with auditable values.
Resource model to gold poured. Every stage reconciled. Ounces predicted, declared and poured, with variance flagged against site tolerance thresholds, to your reporting requirements.
04 · HIGHLIGHTDASHBOARD
Equipment efficiency and utilisation across the fleet.
Beyond reconciliation: availability, utilisation and mean-time-between-failure across every truck, excavator and drill. See where the fleet is losing hours and where it is earning them.
ACROSS YOUR EXISTING STACK
It sits on top of the systems you already run.
Pit Info does not replace your modelling, scheduling or historian systems. It reads from each of them and becomes the one reconciled record on top: the place where the production truth is assembled, audited and signed. Eight categories of input, one record out.
Still running on paper? 90% of sites do.
Your crew photographs the logsheet. Pit Info reads it.
Digitize handwritten paper logsheets via WhatsApp OCR, no re-keying.
Shift supervisor snaps the handwritten logsheet and sends it to a WhatsApp bot. OCR reads it, validates it, and writes it to the database as an audited entry, before the shift is off the pad. No new hardware, no new habit, no numbers lost to a filing cabinet. The one input every other reconciliation system makes you re-key by hand.
Reads every system on your site, eight categories of input
- EXCEL · CSV90% of sitesImporters and templates · no workflow disruption
- WHATSAPP OCRPaper logsheets, site logbooks · cleaned, validated, written to DB
- SCADAMill historian · process control
- FLEETTruck dispatch · cycle data
- LIMSLab assays · QA/QC
- BLOCK MODELResource and grade control
- SURVEYStockpile volumes · topo
- APIREST · webhook · direct DB
HOW MINEBRIGHT WORKS
Configured by engineers, geologists and metallurgists. Live in months, not years.
Sit with your team
A working session with your chief geologist, mine engineers and metallurgists. Whiteboard the ore body, the fleet and the flow sheet.
1 to 2 days · on-site or remote
Map the reconciliation
Map every input: block model, dig blocks, fleet feed, mill scale, lab assays, against the way the month already closes.
Month 1
Configure Pit Info
Engineers configure site rules, signoff steps and distribution against your existing process, not a generic vendor build.
Months 1 to 3
Go live, then refine
First reconciliation in 3 to 4 months. We sit through month-end with your team and configure for the next cycle.
Month 3 to 4 onward
PIT INFO · EXCEL · POINT RECONCILIATION TOOLS
One reconciled record, across your stack.
Most alternatives leave your production truth split across a database, a BI tool, a reconciliation bolt-on and the workbooks gluing them together. Pit Info is the one record on top of all of it.
| Spec | PIT INFO/ MINEBRIGHT | EXCEL/ STATUS QUO | OTHER RECONCILIATION SOFTWARE |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROLE ON SITE | Database + SSOT + reconciliation One licence. Your operational truth lives here, not in three separate vendor contracts. | A workbook Not a database. Not a record. A file someone owns. | Reconciliation only You still buy a database, a BI tool, and the workbooks behind it, separately. |
| PROGRAMS TO RUN | 1 Pit Info. That is the stack. | 4 to 8 Excel + SharePoint + Outlook + Power BI + a master workbook with one owner | 3 to 5 Reconciler + source DB + ETL + BI tool + email distribution |
| TIME TO FIRST RECONCILIATION | 3 to 4 months Configured by Minebright engineers on-site | Days to stand up the first workbook Years before it survives an audit | 12+ months Per typical vendor implementation timeline |
| AUDIT TRAIL | Per-entry timestamps Down to individual truck movements | Cell history (best case) No timestamps, no attribution, broken on merge | Per-session log Coarser granularity than per-entry |
| GRADE RECONCILIATION | Block · truck · month-end Reporting-compliant waterfall, every stage | End-of-month aggregate No drill-down to dig block or truck | Block-level Aggregated reconciliation reporting |
| REPORTING STANDARD | Public-reporting waterfall, every stage, per month-end Resource → reserve → mined → ROM → mill → poured, with variance against tolerance | Site-defined, manual No enforced template, each closer interprets the standard differently | Aggregate-period reporting Monthly or quarterly roll-up, no per-block or per-truck drill-down |
| SIGNOFF + WORKFLOW | Configurable signoff Site rules, warnings, error checks per role | Email approval PDF round-trip, no enforcement, no record | Workflow engine Vendor-defined approval steps |
Rows synthesised from Minebright engagement experience replacing Excel-based reconciliation and migrating from vendor reconciliation suites. Pit Info underpins defensible reporting. It does not by itself make an entity compliant with its public reporting requirements.
See it on your data.
Book a working session and we will walk you through Pit Info using data structured like yours: fleet, flow sheet, lab, and your reconciliation workflow.
PIT INFO AI · DEVIATION ANALYSIS
When the numbers don't reconcile, Pit Info AI finds the why first.
Pit Info AI reads grade control, fleet, mill and lab together, inputs no single team sees at once, and surfaces ranked candidate explanations for a flagged variance. Your engineers confirm the cause. A head start on the why, not the verdict.
DEVIATION · MILL FEEDSAMPLE
PIT INFO AILIVESAMPLE
WHY
MILL feed -16 koz Au vs plan
- 1
Dilution above reserve at three stopes, feed grade diluted against the block model
-8 koz · GRADE CONTROL
- 2
CIL recovery running 1.4% under forecast for the period
-5 koz · GOLD PRODUCTION
- 3
Low-grade stockpile reclaim blended heavier than scheduled
-3 koz · PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
Ranked candidate explanations, your engineers confirm the cause.
- 4 sourcesGrade control · fleet · mill · lab
- RankedMost likely driver first
- Engineer-confirmedAI proposes, your team decides
- Shipping nowLive in the variance view
FAQ
What buyers ask before booking a working session.
What is Pit Info?
Pit Info is mine-to-mill reconciliation software for gold and polymetal producers, built by Minebright Inc., a mining engineering firm in Toronto, Canada. It combines the production database, the single source of truth and the reconciliation engine in one system, replacing the usual stack of Excel workbooks, a separate database, a BI licence and a reconciliation bolt-on. It produces a reconciliation waterfall built for public reporting (resource → reserve → mined → ROM → mill → poured) with a per-truck and per-block audit trail.
We run reconciliation in Excel today. Why switch?
Excel scales until it does not, and the month it does not is the month dilution ships unflagged. Pit Info is configured around the workflow your team already runs in Excel, then layers on per-truck audit trail, reporting-grade signoff, live fleet feeds and a record everyone signs off on. You keep Excel where it earns its keep (modelling, ad-hoc work) and reconcile in Pit Info.
How long does implementation take?
First reconciliation in 3 to 4 months, not a year-long rollout. Month 1 is a working session and reconciliation mapping. Months 1 to 3 we configure Pit Info on your data. Month 3 to 4 onward you are live, and we stay through the first month-end.
Will Pit Info work with our existing Excel workflow?
Yes. Pit Info reads your existing Excel sheets, exports back to them, and pushes summary data into Power BI. The point is not to delete Excel. The point is to give you reconciled production values everyone signs off on, and let Excel keep doing what it does.
What systems does Pit Info connect to?
Fleet dispatch systems, mill historians and SCADA, block-model and resource software, geological modelling and mine-planning suites, LIMS, and direct CSV / REST API. Live feeds at 5-second intervals where the source supports it; scheduled syncs daily, hourly, or per cycle everywhere else.
Where is Pit Info hosted? Cloud or on-site?
Both. Hybrid hosting is your choice. Run Pit Info in the cloud on AWS, in the region of your choice (currently Canada and Australia), or on-site on your own infrastructure for sites with limited connectivity or strict data-sovereignty rules, or a hybrid of the two. Per-tenant infrastructure either way. Your data does not move between regions, or off-site, without your signoff.
Who built Pit Info?
Minebright Inc., a mining engineering and technical services firm based in Toronto. We work with gold and polymetal producers across West Africa, the CIS and the Americas. Pit Info is the system we configure for our clients, built because the software we needed on our own jobs did not exist.
What does the engagement look like?
A working session, not a sales deck. We sit with your team, map your reconciliation workflow against the way you already close the month, and walk through where Pit Info fits. If we move forward, we configure Pit Info on your data and stay through your first month-end on the new system.
Can Pit Info digitize handwritten / paper logsheets?
Yes. Your shift supervisor photographs the handwritten logsheet and sends it to a WhatsApp bot. OCR reads it, validates the values against site rules, and writes them to the database as an audited entry, before the shift is off the pad. No new hardware, no re-keying, no numbers lost in a filing cabinet.
Book a working session
Bring us a reconciliation problem from your site.
Tell us about your operation. A Minebright engineer will set up a working session to walk through how Pit Info would fit your reconciliation workflow.