Every shift, your mine loses tonnes it can't account for.
Underloaded trucks. Carryback residue. Misclassified ore grades. Volumetric estimates for stockpiles and pits that arrive weeks after they're useful. The equipment most mines rely on today was designed when these measurements were genuinely hard. They aren't anymore.
Visual judgement, measured in rupees.
Operators under- or over-fill because nothing tells them otherwise. Trucking factor drifts. You find out at month-end reconciliation.
A queue, a stop, a single data point.
Every truck stops. Every operator waits. The bridge gives you total weight — nothing about carryback, distribution, or whether the load changed en route.
Grade gets decided in the lab. Days later.
By the time you know what grade a consignment was, it's priced, blended or shipped. The decision to bifurcate — if it was made at all — was made by eye.
₹30–50 lakh. Two to three weeks. Still.
That's what external surveyors charge for a 200-acre lease. The flight takes hours. The rest is consulting margin and specialist scarcity.