Managing pre-drilling often feels like a constant uphill battle. Even though it's the foundation of your program, managing earthworks as a separate process means any minor shift in the plan immediately throws the drilling schedule out of whack, leading to delays and creeping costs before the rigs even arrive on site.

When your team is split between camp and the office, it doesn’t take much for an info gap to turn into a week of lost time and rework.

CorePlan Earthworks is designed to stop the noise by putting planning, tracking, approvals, and reporting in one spot. It gives geos and supervisors a shared view of what’s actually happening on-site, so you’re staying ahead of the work instead of chasing it.

Here are the recent improvements we made:

Staying on top of every pad

Whether you’re managing prep or rehab, CorePlan Earthworks helps you organise the data that actually matters.

Custom fields: Add the specifics your team needs, like approval dates or rehab notes, but keep them easily categorised and standardised for downstream reporting.
Smart filtering: Find exactly what you need - like pads approved this week - without digging through tabs.
Clear cost and time usage tracking: Know exactly what earthmoving vehicles and personnel on site are doing and how much they’re costing. Associate your costs with pad and tenements to bring more clarity to your cost tracking.
Contractor-ready: Download pad lists to CSV to give contractors clear, simple instructions.

Keeping reworks under control

Rework happens. Whether a pad needs another pass or clearing wasn’t to spec, the goal is to fix it fast to prevent missed drilling times.

Most teams still rely on messages or scribbled notes to track reworks, which can cause further delays. In CorePlan, reworks are logged and visible to everyone. You can flag an issue, record why it happened and who raised it, and monitor the fix from HQ.

By making reworks part of your system of record, you stop chasing forgotten corrections and start spotting recurring issues before they blow your budget.

Real-time field progress (for real)

The field activity status gives supervisors live visibility into what’s happening right now to their Pads so they can coordinate and make changes on the fly without juggling three different spreadsheets.

Costs you can actually explain

CorePlan Earthworks links every dollar directly to pads, personnel, equipment and tenements. You can export detailed cost breakdowns to create cost summaries on demand . It gives you (and your manager) total confidence in the numbers you’re reporting.

See the big picture

Visual progress bars and completion percentages show you at a glance how you're tracking across different sites. When your field data is structured this way, you get a complete picture of your operations without having to call ten different people for updates.

One connected system

The real win is having everything in one place. Earthworks, drilling, and compliance reporting all live in the same system. Field teams record progress in real time, the office sees it instantly, and everyone is finally working from the same live source of truth.

Want to see it in action? Check out CorePlan Earthworks here.

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