Drilling & geology
Every metre,
signed by the geologist.
The driller's daily report, by hole: metres from and to, core recovered, where the rig set up, and photos of the core boxes. Priced from the contract's depth bands, signed by the geologist from a link, and invoiced from what they signed.
| Hole | From | To | Metres | Band | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDH-26-014 | 38.0 | 50.0 | 12.0 | 0–50 m | $118.00 | $1,416.00 |
| DDH-26-014 | 50.0 | 74.5 | 24.5 | 50–100 m | $132.00 | $3,234.00 |
| DDH-26-015 | 0.0 | 22.0 | 22.0 | 0–50 m | $118.00 | $2,596.00 |
Where drilling money leaks
Every program has one.
The run that crossed 50 m
The contract says 0–50 m at one rate and 50–100 m at another. The shift report says 36.5 m. Somebody works out the split by hand, or nobody does, and either the client overpays or you eat it.
The same metres on two reports
Days and nights both write up 40 to 45 m on DDH-26-014. Nobody notices until the geologist reconciles the hole against the core boxes, a month after it was invoiced.
Core photos in a camera roll
The box photos are on the driller's phone. The geologist asks for them a week later, by text, and gets eleven pictures with no hole number on any of them.
From the plan to the invoice
How a hole moves through Pit & Rig.
In the office
The plan and the price
Add the drill plan's holes: each one's ID, where it's planned (latitude and longitude, or the UTM straight off the plan) and how deep. Price the rig per metre with the contract's depth bands and core size.
On the rig
The run, from and to
The driller picks the hole. From starts where the hole is; the driller enters To and the core recovered. A run that crosses a band splits itself, each part at its own rate. Metres already on any ticket are refused.
At the collar
Where it actually went
One tap records the collar from the phone, with its accuracy. Everyone sees how far it landed from the planned position.
At the core shack
Photos, by hole
Core-box photos go on the hole they're of, each with who took it, when and where. The driller adds them on the ticket; the geologist can add their own before signing.
For the geologist
Signed from a link
No account and no login. The geologist opens the day on their phone: each hole's metres, depth so far, recovery and collar, and the photos. They sign, and the photos are final from then on.
At month-end
Invoiced from what was signed
The invoice is built from approved tickets with the signed copies attached. Each copy ends with a page of the core photos, by hole.
Whose software it is
The contractor's. Free for the geologist.
Most drilling software is bought by the mining company and handed to its contractors to fill in. Pit & Rig is the drilling contractor's: your rates, your crews, your hole-by-hole record and your invoice, the same way it runs your other jobs.
The geologist doesn't need to buy anything or remember a password. They get a link for each day, see the holes and the core, add their own photos and sign. If the client wants every contractor's tickets in one place, they can join Pit & Rig and approve there instead.
The details
What's in it.
- Depth bands
- Up to eight on a rate, from the collar down; the last can run to any depth. Each part of a run is its own line, metres × rate, so the arithmetic is on the page.
- Core sizes
- BQ, NQ, HQ and PQ, with NQ2 and triple-tube NQ3, HQ3 and PQ3. The size is printed on every run billed at that rate.
- Depth by day
- Each hole's depth so far and the metres drilled on each day, on the project, with the ticket behind every run.
- A metre is billed once
- A run that overlaps metres already drilled on the same hole is refused, on this ticket or any other. Copying yesterday's ticket brings the crew and the iron, never yesterday's metres.
- Foremen never see rates
- The driller sees the depths of each band, not the prices. Not a hidden column: the server never sends them.
- Tamper-evident
- The signature's fingerprint covers the hole, the metres, the band, the core size and the recovery. The photos are fingerprinted when the ticket is approved.
- Included
- On every contractor plan, Operations and Pro. The geologist approves from a link, free.
Downhole surveys and assays stay in your geology software. Pit & Rig is the record of what was drilled, what it cost and who signed for it.
Get today's metres signed today.
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See plans & pricingTHE WORK MOVES.
THE RECORD FOLLOWS.
A ticket shouldn’t be a dead end.
See how one day in the field becomes
one clear record in the office.
This is a sample project. Try the controls.
No account. No real data. Just the flow.
One shift. Everything in it.
Drag to change the hours. Watch the ticket update.
Before the shift. The safety tailgate.FLHA-0241 · Sample assessment3 / 4CREW SIGNED
Set up. Check the ground. Talk it through.
The hazards, controls, and crew acknowledgement stay with the day’s work. Open the sample, then add yourself to the crew.
Review the exclusion zone, spotter, and radio check before the shift.
Review access routes and confirm the walking surface has been treated.
Stop and reassess with the supervisor when the work or conditions change.
Illustrative risk scores: before → after controls, on a 1–5 scale.
Emergency arrangements are reviewed with the crew at the briefing.
Example only. No attendance or safety record is created.
Illustrative rates. Demo actions never send an email or create real records.