Mining and resources
Remote delivery, quantities that reconcile.
Resources work is heavy civil and fixed plant in remote places, run on quantities, materials and standing time. Outpost reconciles delivered against placed, rolls plant and labour up from site, and ties it all to the priced record, so the claim matches the ground even a thousand kilometres from the office.
Where it leaks
The cost and the compliance leak in the gap.
Outpost reconciles quantities and materials against the priced record from the field, so a remote job does not drift from the ground it is built on.
Remote and blind
Progress and cost on a remote site are reconciled weeks late, back in town.
Quantities drift
Bulk earthworks and material quantities slowly diverge from the schedule, with nobody owning the gap.
Standing time leaks
Plant standing time and directed work are captured on paper and lost before the claim.
On mining & resources
What runs on the record.
Materials and quantities
Delivered against placed, tied back to the priced schedule of rates.
Plant and labour
Daily allocation from remote crews with cost rolled up to the activity.
Works on one record
Bulk earthworks, structural, mechanical and piping against the same record.
Offline by default
Captured on site without signal and synced when the crew is back in range.
Built for the remote, quantity-driven reality of mine development and resources construction.
Sources
Every number here is auditable.
- [1]Australian Bureau of Statistics, Private New Capital Expenditure (mining industry capital spend of about $53 billion in 2023-24). https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/business-indicators/private-new-capital-expenditure-and-expected-expenditure-australia/latest-release
- [2]Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Resources and Energy Major Projects 2024 (about $62 billion of committed projects; more than 400 projects in the long-term pipeline). https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/resources-and-energy-major-projects-2024
- [3]Love and Edwards, Quantifying the causes and costs of rework in construction (rework on civil infrastructure 10.3% to 16.5% of contract value; primary causes were errors and omissions in documentation). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24077442_Quantifying_the_causes_and_costs_of_rework_in_construction
