Drill activity system
Drill Logs turns rig-deck activity into one operational record — programs, holes, shifts, bits, crews, consumables. Run your own rigs or bill a customer's. The meters you drill flow straight into Pit Info reconciliation.
Diamond + RC · PQ3 to NQ2 · offline tablet · iOS + Android
Built by Minebright Inc. — Toronto
Trusted by mining & drilling teams
The status quo
Drilling teams already know where the meters went — the meters are written down. They're written down on three different surfaces, by four different people, in two different time zones. That's the problem we're built to fix.
Sample Log the whole shift on the rig deck — gloved, offline, in seconds
What sets it apart
The comparison every buyer is already running in their head.
| Capability | Drill Logs | Generic PM tool | Paper / Excel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill hole as first-class data | ✓ | – | – |
| Bill on meters actually drilled | ✓ | – | manual |
| Offline on the rig deck | ✓ | – | – |
| Feeds Pit Info reconciliation | ✓ | – | – |
| Native EN / FR, drilling vocabulary | ✓ | partial | – |
| Running real shifts in week one | ✓ | 8–10 wk | — |
Capability comparison · illustrative
The capabilities
Locations, projects, drilling programs, drill holes, shifts. Surveys with azimuth, inclination, and depth — the actual instrument shots, not a free-text field. Drilling methods and core sizes as first-class data, not tags.
Day, night, and afternoon shifts assigned to a rig. Crews as reusable templates, not retyped names. Drill bit and reamer changes captured at depth, with reason and the next bit's serial. Real-time rig status.
A drill bit isn't a consumable. A reamer isn't a vehicle. Drill Logs tracks each by type, with location-aware stock, depth-tracked usage, and minimum-stock alerts before the rig runs dry.
Program scheduling
Run the drill program as a live schedule — every hole planned on the timeline, every actual completion tracked against it. See what's ahead, what's behind, and what's left to target, without rebuilding a Gantt in a spreadsheet every Monday.
Fleet & consumables
Track rigs, drill bits, reamers, and consumables by usage, life, and running cost. Bit lifecycle from purchase to retirement, consumables tied to the shift that burned them, and minimum-stock alerts before the camp runs dry.
Drill bits — life used / metres / cost
The closed loop
Every meter on the invoice ties back to a shift, the shift to a hole, the hole to a quoted program. No reconstructing from email threads.
Part of the Minebright platform
Every meter you capture in Drill Logs flows into Pit Info — Minebright's mine-to-mill reconciliation. The drill record and the reconciliation run on the same numbers. No re-keying, no second source of truth.
Signed shift data moves across automatically. One record, both products.
The tablet app
The field app the crew runs the shift on — gloved hands, no signal, sub-zero or 40°C. Native iOS and Android tablets. Full offline mode. Syncs the moment the rig is back in coverage.
Works fully offline, syncs on its own.
Every shift, every activity, every consumable, every bit swap — captured on the device and synced automatically the moment the rig hits coverage.
Live activity & consumable tracking.
The timeline shows what's logged and what's missing in real time. Gaps surface before the shift is submitted — not the next morning.
Adjust any value with a tap.
Reading wrong? Time off? Bit life mis-counted? Tap a number, change it, move on. Nothing is locked behind a back-office ticket.
iOS and Android tablets.
Same app, both platforms. Bring your own device or roll out a fleet — Drill Logs runs equally well on either.
More of the tablet app
Sessions
Pick up where you left off
End-of-shift review
Submit only when complete
iOS and Android — request access on a demo call.
30 minutes, on your real drilling program. We set you up with access after the call.
Book a demoIndustries
Production drilling, grade control, and blast-hole work — RC and rotary methods, daily-meter rollups across the fleet, real-time rig status the dispatcher can trust.
RC · rotary · blast-holeDiamond core programs from PQ3 through NQ2. Hole surveys with azimuth, inclination, and depth. Core recovery, core loss, and bit life tracked at the meter — junior explorers and mid-tier producers, same record.
PQ3 → NQ2 · core recoveryGeotechnical and water-well crews use Drill Logs for shift records, crew tracking, and consumables. Construction-specific borehole logging is on the roadmap; talk to us about your workflow.
geotech · water-wellFAQ
Drillers, helpers, and supervisors log shifts, bit changes, consumable usage, and tool changes directly on the device. The app stores everything locally. When the rig comes back into coverage — camp Wi-Fi, cellular, or starlink — the app syncs automatically and the office dashboard updates in real time. Nothing gets lost. Nothing waits for a Monday-morning re-key.
No. About half our users are in-house drilling teams at mining companies — running production or exploration rigs for their own operation. They use the operations record, crew and rig tracking, inventory, and reporting. They don't use the customer management or invoicing modules.
No. Your existing PLOD fields map onto the shift record almost one-to-one: depth, activity, bit, reason, crew, hours, consumables, sign-off. The mobile app is laid out the way a paper PLOD reads, on purpose. Crews who can fill a paper PLOD can fill a Drill Logs shift. Most teams are running real shifts in the app inside the first week.
Yes. CSV import is built in for drilling programs and drill holes — common starting points when you're switching from a workbook. For larger migrations from another platform, we'll do the mapping with you on a working call.
Diamond and RC, with all the standard core sizes: PQ3, PQWL, HQ3, HQWL, NQ3, NQ2, NQ Coring. Plus RC Drilling, Air Core, RAB, Auger, and Casing Ops. Drilling method and core size are first-class fields on the drill hole, not free-text tags — so reports filter properly and bit life is tracked per method.
Most teams run their first real shift within the first week. Setup starts on a 30-minute call so we can match the configuration to how you actually run the rig — locations, programs, rigs, crews, activity types, inventory. Typical guided setup is five to ten working days. We don't quote eight to ten weeks.
Your data is yours. Drill Logs runs on managed infrastructure with daily backups; you can export your full record at any time, in CSV or JSON, with no gates. We don't sell or share customer data. Enterprise customers can request specific data residency (Canada, EU, Australia).
English and French at launch — the app, the documentation, and the support team are bilingual. French is fully native, not machine-translated, with proper drilling vocabulary (sondage, foration, programme de forage). Spanish is on the roadmap for Latin American markets if traction follows.
Most teams cut over one rig at a time. Print one last paper PLOD as a backup, run the next shift in the app, compare the two at end-of-shift. After three or four shifts the paper stops getting filled in — because the digital record is already done. We'll help you plan the cut-over on the demo call.
The record of every meter.
See Drill Logs running on a real drilling program, on real data, on a real rig. 30 minutes. We'll set you up with access after the call.