Mining Toolkit
Offline field tools for underground crews

Plan the round. Scale the print. Work offline.

Round planning, drill tuning, shotcrete and bolting calculators, print scaling, drill specs and your shift rotation, in one phone app built by a miner for underground crews. It works with no signal, and drill plans export straight to Sandvik .dp or Epiroc .xml.

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A twin-boom development jumbo at the face, seen from the operator's seat, with the drill grid painted on the rock in yellow.
Grid mode

The grid you paint
is the grid you plan.

Grid mode lays the round on the same lines the crew paints on the face. Inner lifters sit on the lines, and only the outer lifter angles in to the wall.

Round Planner

Open a real plan.
Change it. Export it.

Engineering software builds a drill plan from scratch. Round Planner is for the next step: taking the plan you already have and adjusting it for the face in front of you.

01

Open the plan from the drill

Load a Sandvik .dp or an Epiroc .xml. The format is read from the file itself, and a summary shows exactly what came in.

02

Change what the face needs

Resize the round, move the cut, change the drift shape or drop the lifters for road material. One Undo puts it back.

03

Export for either drill

Save to Sandvik .dp or Epiroc .xml under the plan's own file name. Every hole keeps its own bit size.

Always verify an exported plan on the drill's own system before drilling.
Heatmap

Every spacing,
measured.

Turn on the heatmap and the face is shaded by toe spacing, checked against the burden for each row. Every gap between neighbouring holes is labelled in metres, so a wide span or a crowded pair shows up on the phone instead of in the muck pile.

Spacing in range
Cut to easer links
1.02Hole to hole, in metres
Round Planner's heatmap on the toe face of the default 5.5 by 5.5 metre arched round, with the spacing between each pair of holes labelled in metres: 0.64 on the contour, 0.93 on the aid row, 1.02 across the grid and 0.71 on the lifters.
Toe face · 4.2 m deepScreen capture · Round Planner
Six drift shapes

Any heading profile.

Pick the shape and Round Planner lays the contour, aid row, grid and lifters to match. Each profile below is drawn from the app's own starting values for a 5.5 m drift.

5.5 × 5.5 m

Arched back

Straight walls with an arched back. The standard drift.

5.5 × 5.5 m

Flat back

Straight walls and a flat back.

5.5 m · walls 5.5 / 4.5 m

Shanty back

Flat back sloping from a high wall to a low wall.

5.5 × 5.5 m

D-shape

Straight walls under a semicircular arch.

5.5 × 5.5 m · 4.4 m floor

Horseshoe

Arch with lower walls curving in to a narrower floor.

5.5 × 5.17 m

Circular

Circle with a short flat floor.

Inside the app

Real screens.
No mock-ups.

Round Planner on a phone, showing the default round in 3D from collars to toes.
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Round Planner · 3D

Round Planner

Every hole from collar to toe in 3D. Turn the round, check the angles, then switch to the face or toe view.

74 holes5.5 × 5.5 m4.2 m deep
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Round Planner · Heatmap

Spacing heatmap

The drill face shaded by spacing, with every hole-to-hole gap labelled in metres. A wide span or a crowded pair stands out before you drill.

0.64 m contour1.02 m grid0.71 m lifters
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Ground support · Bolting & screen

Bolting calculator

Set the drift, the pattern and the support for each zone. It counts the bolts, resin and screens, then lays the screens out on a 2.5D map of the heading.

82 bolts · 6 screens5.0 × 5.0 m arched2.5D layout map
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Ground support · Grout

Grout calculator

Set the bit, the depth and the mixer, then read dry grout, water and bags per hole. Loaded batch, plan holes and ring modes, with a pot timer.

15.78 kg per 6 m holeW:G 0.28300 L pot
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Drill tuning · RPM

RPM calculator

Pick the rig, the rock drill, the bit and the ground. It gives a field baseline RPM to start tuning from and checks it against the rotation motor ceiling.

233 RPM startDD422i · RD525 · 45 mm280 RPM ceiling checked
Screen captures from Mining Toolkit · Core Sheet theme
The toolkit

Everything for the shift.
Nothing you don't need.

Round Planner is one tool of many. The rest follow the app's own menus: drilling, development, prints and life on shift.

Drilling
The view from a drill cab toward a lit heading.
RPM · Logger · Geology

Drill Tuning

RPM calculator, logger, geology notes, quick reference and troubleshooting for dialing in a drill.

An operator at a long-hole drill in a heading.
Plan vs actual

Drill Deviation Map

Plan and actual toe positions for a heading, side by side.

A DD422i development jumbo underground.
Reference

Drill Specs

Specifications for jumbos, bolters and long-hole rigs.

A pencil drawing of a drill angled toward the tunnel face.
Cheat sheet

Rod Count

A rod count cheat sheet for the drill.

A jumbo boom at a development face with the holes marked in red and yellow paint.
Development

Development Drilling

Calculators for development drilling.

Development
A shotcrete sprayer working in a drift with a crew member nearby.
Drift · Shaft · Accelerator

Shotcrete

Shotcrete volumes for drift development and shaft sinking, plus accelerator dosage and mixing.

A bolter boom raised to meshed back underground.
Grout · Encapsulation

Bolting

Grout and full-encapsulation calculators for ground support.

A drawing of a loaded muck bucket in a drift.
Development

Mucking

Calculators for mucking out the round.

A hand-drawn mine development plan held up in a drift.
Prints

Print Scale and Auto Backsites

Read the scale off a mine print, then lay out the next rounds on it from your burden.

On shift
An engraving of a calendar with sun and moon shift symbols.

Shift Rotation

Your rotation on a calendar, stat holidays included.

Three miners on a winners' podium underground.

Mining Scoreboard

A scoreboard for the mining cycle.

A gas monitor clipped to a miner's belt.

Mine Gases

A field guide to the gases you meet underground.

Calipers, a tape measure and a gauge on a workbench.

Unit Converter

Metric and imperial, side by side.

A drawing of a mining simulator in a classroom.

Mining Videos

Training and simulator videos in one place.

Why it works underground

Built at the face,
not in an office.

Made by an underground miner, for the work at the face. Every tool runs on the phone with no signal, and every number carries its unit.

Zero bars of signal needed.

of cell signal needed. Everything runs on the phone.

6 drift shapes.

Arched, flat, shanty, D, horseshoe and circular.

11 themes.

Light, dark and manufacturer-inspired palettes.

3 languages.

English, Français and Español, throughout.

From the field

Shot underground,
on shift.

Every photo here was taken on the job by Jory Dion, the miner who builds Mining Toolkit.

A shaft-sinking drill under light falling down the shaft.
A yellow jumbo drilling over a muck pile in a large heading.
A miner with a cap lamp walking a wet drift.
A twin-boom jumbo in a meshed drift, lights on.
The control screen in a drill cab, with the boom beyond the cab guard.
Looking up a shaft past two drill booms, with bolt plates numbered in paint.
A bolter boom against a meshed wall.
The side of a Sandvik machine underground.
A slab of rock with a painted smiley face on a machine deck.
Feature requests

Tell me what
to build next.

Most of Mining Toolkit started as a problem on shift. If something slows you down at the face, or a number you need isn't in the app yet, send it here.

  • Read by the miner who builds it. Every request is read and sorted into the build queue.
  • No account needed. It opens your own email app with the request filled in, addressed to Mining Toolkit Support. You just press send.
  • Keep it general. Don't include anything confidential from your mine: no plans, prints or site names.
Which part of the app?
What kind of request?
How often would you use it?
How much would it help?
Your phone

Support & feedback

Contact Mining
Toolkit Support.

For support, bug reports, feature suggestions or questions about a submitted Scoreboard result, contact Mining Toolkit Support.

[email protected]

Messages are read and answered as time allows. Support page

SupportGet help with the appBug ReportSomething isn't workingFeature RequestSuggest a tool or changeScoreboard Removal RequestAsk about a result you posted
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Take it
underground.

Mining Toolkit for iPhone and Android. Set it up once on surface, then use it anywhere.

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