Mine survey pickup and reconciliation software
End-of-month pickups on a mine — face positions, stope and drive advances, stockpiles, dumps — feed the reconciliation between what the plan said would be mined and what actually was. The mine surveyor’s report is read by planning, geology and the general manager, and the questions are always the same: what was picked up, what could not be accessed, and how far ahead or behind plan each area is. SurveyThanks records each pickup area on site, underground included, with no signal needed.
Built for mine surveyors running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Mine survey report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Mine survey report
Month-end pickup — June 2026
- Operation
- Fictional Hill underground mine
- Pickup dates
- 28–30 June 2026
- Control
- Underground traverse stations UG101–UG118
| Area | Pickup | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1120 level ore drive | Advanced 46 m (plan 52 m) | Status: Behind plan |
| Stope 1080-3 void | Void scan completed from brow | Status: Pass |
| ROM stockpile 2 | Surface pickup completed | Status: Pass |
| 1150 level decline face | Barricaded — ground support pending | Status: No access |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the mine survey report where your template puts it.
Per area
- Level and heading
- Pickup type (face, void, stockpile)
- Advance or volume reported
- Planned figure
- Photo
Control
- Stations used (from the station register)
- Station condition
- New stations installed
Exceptions
- Areas not accessed with reason
- Figures carried forward
- Hazards observed
Standards the report works to
- Qld MQSHR 2017Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Regulation 2017 (Qld)
- Includes the obligations for keeping mine plans current, which month-end pickups support for Queensland metalliferous mines and quarries.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the mine survey report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the mine survey pickup form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your marks, stations and monitoring points
Enter marks, stations and monitoring points once, as a register. Every one of your observations, rounds and movement readings then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The mine survey report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a mine survey report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The movement summary reports 4 mm at PM3; the round’s readings put it at 11 mm.
Checks a surveying framework usually carries
- Control, datum and epoch are stated for every deliverable
- Quoted tolerances match the project specification being reported against
- Every mark named in the text exists in the register
- Assumptions and sources of error are recorded rather than assumed
Questions
- Will the forms work underground with no network?
- Yes. The day’s jobs and forms are downloaded before going underground, and every reading, photo and note queues on the device until it is back on the surface network.
- Can survey stations be tracked across months?
- Stations are a register, so each pickup links to the stations it used and their recorded condition, and destroyed stations stay on record rather than disappearing from a spreadsheet.
- Does SurveyThanks calculate volumes or update the mine plan?
- No. Volumes and plans stay in your mine planning and survey software. SurveyThanks records the pickup, exceptions and figures reported, and renders the monthly report.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other surveying work we cover
- Contour and detail surveysDetail survey report
- Deformation monitoring roundsMovement monitoring report
- GPR survey recordsGPR survey report
- Laser scan site capturesPoint cloud delivery report
- Strata plan field verificationStrata plan report
- Utility locating recordsLocate mark-up report
- Volumetric drone surveysVolume report
- Aerial mapping missionsMapping deliverable report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your mine survey report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.