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What Software Should You Use to Manage Mining Construction Projects?

2026-09-20 6 min

Short answer

A mining construction or assembly project — plants, camps, civil works, roads, industrial facilities — is best managed on a platform that unites cost, progress, purchasing, quality and safety with full traceability. OneMake brings those 18 modules into one system and has Serux built in, the AI agent that prepares the reports, protocols and checklists a mining client demands.

What makes a mining project different

  • Very demanding clients on documentation, quality and safety.
  • Remote sites, far from head office, where information arrives late.
  • Many subcontractors working in parallel.
  • Progress payments that depend on proving progress and quality.
  • Zero tolerance on safety.

That is why spreadsheets are not enough: field, cost and quality information must be in one place and available to management in real time.

Which modules you need

  • Cost control: budget vs. actual by cost item and by contract.
  • Physical progress and Gantt with client milestones.
  • Purchasing and warehouse to supply remote sites without stock-outs.
  • Machinery and equipment: usage and cost per project.
  • Quality: ISO 9001 inspection protocols, non-conformances and traceability.
  • Safety (HSE): checklists per work type, findings and corrective actions.
  • Reports for management and the client.

How Serux helps on site

The contract administrator can ask "prepare the monthly progress and quality report for the client" and Serux builds it from the project's real data. The safety officer asks for HSE checklists for the week's critical tasks. The technical office asks for protocols for the current phase. Fewer office hours, more field hours.

How to choose

  • Check that cost, quality and safety are integrated, not in separate systems.
  • Ask to see a client-style report generated from the platform.
  • Test the field app with your supervisors.
  • Confirm implementation time: a mining project will not wait months.

Frequently asked questions

Is OneMake for mining contractors or only building?

Its cost, progress, purchasing, quality and safety modules apply to any construction project, including civil works and assemblies in mining.

What about estimating the tender?

For the bidding stage, the complement is OneEstimate, where Serux also operates.

Where can I see it?

At OneMake or on the OneMake page.

Bring Serux into your operation

Serux works inside these platforms. Pick the one that solves your challenge: project management, estimating or real estate sales.