Getting started
MineBook runs in your web browser on desktop and tablet. You don’t need to install anything or talk to sales.
- Go to the sign-up page and choose Continue with Google, or sign up with your email address and a password.
- Create your first site, for example your quarry’s name.
- Follow the setup steps below to add work areas, people, equipment and units.
- Plan your first shift.
Key ideas
Everything in MineBook is organised around the shift. A shift connects the site, work areas, people, equipment, targets, actual production, downtime, consumption, closure and handover into one record.
- Site
- One mine or quarry. Every record belongs to exactly one site.
- Work area
- A named place in the site, such as a pit, bench, crusher or stockpile.
- Shift
- A dated working period with a plan, actual records, a closure and a handover.
- Design revision
- A saved version of a drawing, 3D model or blast layout that shifts can reference.
Shift lifecycle
Being prepared. Can be cancelled.
Targets and resources set. Can be cancelled if nothing is recorded.
Shift started. The original plan is frozen and work is recorded.
Reconciled, explained and locked as read-only.
A closed shift can be reopened by an authorised user with a reason. Closing it again creates a new closure version and keeps the earlier one.
1. Set up your site
Setup is usually done once by the engineer or site administrator.
- Create the site and set its timezone.
- Add named work areas such as pit, bench, crusher and stockpile.
- Confirm units and measurement rules (length, mass, volume, count and time).
- Add workers (name, employee ID, role) and equipment (ID, type, model, capacity, status). Workers don’t need a login account.
- Add materials, products and shift templates, including overnight shifts.
2. Plan a shift
- Review the previous shift’s handover.
- Create a dated shift from a shift template.
- Set drilling, quarry production and crusher targets separately.
- Assign workers and equipment to planned activities.
- Resolve or acknowledge any warnings about unavailable or double-booked resources.
- Start the shift. This freezes the original plan as the baseline for plan-versus-actual.
If the work follows an engineering design, the plan points to the exact released revision. Later design changes don’t alter a shift that has already started.
3. Record work during the shift
While a shift is Active, authorised users can add these records. Each one keeps who entered it, when it happened and when it was entered.
Drilling
Driller, rig, work area and groups of holes with count and depth. MineBook calculates total drilling length.
Blast events
Each blast is its own event, with time, work area, blaster, holes, outcome and estimated rock quantity. Link it to earlier drilling.
Explosive consumption
Explosive mass and accessory counts as separate lines, each marked measured or estimated.
Quarry production
New production quantity, material, source, destination and equipment. Rehandling is kept separate.
Crusher production
Crusher feed, product outputs and running hours.
Downtime
Equipment, start and end time and reason. Overlapping downtime on the same machine is blocked.
Fuel
Fuel issued or measured consumption. The two are never treated as the same thing.
Worker presence
Who actually worked, recorded separately from who was assigned.
Unplanned work
Anything outside the plan, with a reason.
4. Close the shift
- Review plan versus actual.
- MineBook highlights missing context, invalid units, time overlaps and unresolved records.
- Fix any blocking errors. A shift can’t close while they remain.
- Explain shortfalls, estimates, unplanned work and open issues.
- Write the handover for the next shift.
- Close the shift. MineBook saves a closure version and locks the shift.
5. Handover and follow-up
- The incoming supervisor reads the handover and acknowledges it.
- Open issues stay active, with an owner and status, until someone resolves them.
- Engineers and managers review the reports.
- Results and open work feed into the next shift plan.
6. Engineering workspace
The engineering workspace is for desktop use. It connects your designs to the shifts that carry them out.
2D drawing (CAD)
Draw on layers with points, lines, polylines, polygons, labels and dimensions. Use snapping, numeric coordinates, move, copy, delete and undo. Import 2D DXF files and CSV point files; anything unsupported is reported, and the original file is kept.
3D model
Build terrain surfaces and bench geometry from elevation points and drawing lines. Orbit, pan and zoom, and inspect elevations. The 2D and 3D views show the same objects, so an edit in one updates the other.
Blast design
Draw a blast boundary, then generate holes from your burden, spacing, diameter, depth and angle, or place them one by one. Every hole keeps a stable ID.
From design to execution
- Set the site’s coordinate reference (or local origin), horizontal units, vertical datum and elevation units.
- Draw or import the mine layout and link drawing objects to work areas.
- Create the blast layout for a work area.
- Review and release the design revision.
- Reference that revision in a shift plan, drilling records and blast events.
- Compare planned and actual drilling in the design-versus-execution report.
Being drawn or edited.
Checked for geometry, IDs and required fields. Can go back to Draft.
Ready for planning. Can no longer be changed.
Replaced by a newer released revision.
Released revisions never change. To make changes, create a new draft revision; shifts keep the revision they actually used.
7. Reports and KPIs
Final reports use closed shifts. Active or reopened shifts are marked provisional. Every report can be filtered and exported to CSV.
- Shift summary
- Plan-versus-actual report
- Operations register (drilling, blast, quarry, crusher)
- Downtime by equipment and reason
- Fuel and explosive consumption
- Engineering KPI report
- Handover and revision history
- CSV export
- Blast layout sheet and hole schedule
- Design-versus-execution report
How KPIs are calculated
| KPI | Calculation |
|---|---|
| Plan achievement | Actual ÷ original target × 100 |
| Plan variance | Actual − original target |
| Drilling length | Sum of hole count × depth |
| Crusher throughput | Crusher feed ÷ running hours |
| Crusher yield | Crusher output ÷ feed × 100 |
| Downtime | Sum of non-overlapping downtime minutes per asset |
| Powder factor | Explosive mass ÷ confirmed blast rock quantity |
| Fuel intensity | Attributed fuel ÷ matching production output |
| Presence | Workers present ÷ workers planned |
| Hole completion | Completed planned holes ÷ planned holes |
Roles and permissions
Access is limited by site and role. One person can hold several roles.
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Mining / planning engineer | Sets up work areas, units and targets. Creates and releases drawings, 3D models and blast designs. Reviews performance. |
| Shift supervisor | Plans people and equipment, starts the shift, checks actuals, explains variances, closes the shift and writes the handover. |
| Operational recorder | Enters records during an active shift. |
| Incoming supervisor | Reads and acknowledges the previous shift’s handover. |
| Quarry manager | Reviews shift and period performance. |
| Site administrator | Manages users, permissions and reference data. |
Data rules to know
Empty is not zero
A blank field means unknown. Enter 0 only when the value really was zero.
Units must match
MineBook never adds or compares quantities in incompatible units.
Measured, estimated or derived
Every quantity keeps its basis, and reports show them differently.
The original plan counts
Plan-versus-actual uses the targets frozen when the shift started.
Material stages stay separate
Blast quantity, quarry production, crusher feed and crusher output are never mixed.
Nothing is silently deleted
Records are corrected or voided with a reason, and the history is kept.
Operational date = shift start
An overnight shift belongs to the date it started.
Ready to try it?
Create your account and set up your first site.