Ever sat in a budget meeting trying to explain “how long this next round of drilling will actually take”?

You’re running multi-million-dollar programs with many moving parts, but the plan still lives in static spreadsheets, whiteboards or a scheduler that isn’t linked to real drilling data. And while that can work during planning, things tend to fall apart once drilling starts.

The moment something changes, whether it’s a breakdown, bad weather or access issues, your schedule is out of date. Resource allocation becomes guesswork.

It becomes harder to say with confidence how many rigs you should allocate, when drilling will finish, and when you’ll need teams ready for logging and other post-drilling work.

That uncertainty raises the risk of budgets drifting, people and equipment falling out of sync, and downstream work like modelling and reporting starting later than it should.

Previously, Rig Scheduler 1.0 let exploration teams assign rigs by holes only. You told us this isn’t practical for programs with many holes, and it doesn’t give a high-level view that lets you plan months in advance.

Rig Scheduler 2.0 reimagines how you see drilling progress: a live view of how each drill program is tracking, how delays and downtime affect delivery, and whether you’ll hit your target metres on time.

In CorePlan, the rig scheduler follows a simple flow:

Plan – After designing your drill holes in Micromine or Leapfrog, you can bulk import your drill programs and total planned metres into CorePlan. Add them to Rig Scheduler, and CorePlan turns them into an initial schedule so you can see, visually and at a glance, what it will take to hit your targets.

Schedule – Drop rigs onto programs in a single timeline. You can see instantly if you’ve overcommitted a rig or left a program under-resourced.

Track – As daily plods are validated, the schedule updates itself with real progress, penetration rates, downtime and metres drilled. Projected end dates move with reality, so you always know if you’re on track or slipping.

Adjust – If plans change because of holidays, breakdowns or access issues, you just block out the affected time and CorePlan updates the schedule automatically. From there, you can reshuffle rigs and coordinate teams around the revised dates.

Rig Scheduler 2.0 allows you to predict the unknown.

Fed by live data, you can see the health and timing of your programs, plan your next move proactively, and align with production planning, studies, and market announcements.

Your planning also gets more accurate over time. By comparing plan versus actual, you can see where the gaps are, and use those insights to build more accurate, defensible plan for the next program.

CorePlan’s dynamic rig scheduling sits in the same platform you’re currently using to manage drill operations, earthworks and, soon, geophysics.

The Mining Hub becomes the place where you run complex yet predictable programs from pad prep, drilling, right through to closure.

The key is context that compounds over time.

If you think you’re running behind schedule, the rig scheduler makes it easy to see which rigs and programs are driving that performance and where you should dive deeper. You can:

Your control room is live, which means you see blockages before they compound, catch cost overruns while there's still time to adjust, and make decisions based on what's happening now rather than waiting for delayed reports or driving to site.

If you’d prefer a live demo, contact support@coreplan.io and our team can show you how it works.