Ore to ounce, and what it cost.
Shifts, stockpiles, the plant and the gold room, with a metal balance that reconciles what went in against what came out — plus safety, environment, titles and statutory compliance.
Mining software from the shift to the gold room
The discipline that keeps a mine honest is simple to state and hard to implement: never keep one figure where two exist. Tonnes and grade. Called and weighed. Declared and delivered. Vantage Point's mining module is built on that rule, which is why the metal balance it produces means something — it reconciles what went into the chain against what came out, at every place along it, rather than reporting a single number that nobody can check.
Production is recorded at the shift, not reconstructed at month-end. Each shift logs what it moved, from which place, and the delays that stopped it, so lost hours have a reason attached to them while the reason is still known. Ore moves between places and stockpiles carrying its tonnes and grade, the plant records feed, consumption and recovery, and the gold room records smelts, bars and the delivery that follows — with the called figure and the weighed figure both kept.
Around the production chain sits the compliance a mine cannot trade without: incidents, inspections and corrective actions; competency certificates and occupational health monitoring; environmental monitoring points, obligations and the closure provision; claims and leases with their own obligations; and explosives and fuel issued, returned and reconciled, because both of those are somebody's personal legal responsibility. Cost per gram is built from the ledger rather than from an operator's spreadsheet.
Two figures, never one.
Grade and tonnes. Called and weighed. Declared and delivered. The module keeps both sides of every pair, because a single figure is the one thing you cannot check.
Mining, asked and answered.
Does it do a metal balance?
Yes, across the whole chain from the face to the delivery, reconciling what entered each stage against what left it. Because tonnes and grade are carried on every movement rather than assumed, a discrepancy comes with a place attached to it instead of appearing as an unexplained difference at the end.
Does it work out cost per gram?
Yes, as an all-in cost per gram produced, built from the ledger the rest of the system posts to — labour, consumables, fuel, maintenance and overhead — rather than from a separate spreadsheet that has to be reconciled back to the accounts.
Does it cover safety and environmental compliance?
Yes. Incidents, inspections, findings and corrective actions, safety performance reporting, competency certificates with expiry, occupational health monitoring, environmental monitoring points and obligations, and the closure provision are all part of the module rather than a separate register.
Is it for small workings or large mines?
It is built around the shift, the place and the stockpile, which is the shape of both. A small working uses the production chain, the gold room and cost per gram; a larger operation adds exploration, resources and reserves, controlled items and the fuller compliance set. The same records underlie both.
The rest of the system.
ONE LEDGER UNDERNEATH IT ALLTake the high ground.
Set up your first store, till and ledger in an afternoon.