PitMap turns the soil and rock sampling results from your PML into a gold anomaly map of the licence and marks the spots worth digging, with GPS coordinates you can walk to.
Your licences, samples and targets are seen by you alone.
Machine hire, fuel, labour and weeks of work go into every pit. A few hundred soil samples cost a fraction of that, but only if someone reads them properly. PitMap does the reading: it grids your results with the methods geologists use (kriging, inverse distance, minimum curvature, triangulation), picks the one that fits your samples best, and tells you how sure it is.
Built in Tanzania for holders of primary mining licences (PML) and prospecting licences, from Geita, Kahama and Mara to Chunya, Singida and the Lake Victoria goldfields.
Its name and the corner coordinates from the licence certificate. Arc 1960 or WGS 84, PitMap checks which one you mean.
CSV or Excel, as the lab sent it. Columns are matched for you, and wrong coordinates or below-detection values are flagged before anything is mapped.
The hot spots, the direction the gold runs, and the best targets ranked, each with GPS, a "Go there" button, and an estimate of pit volume in truckloads.
On a full 10 ha PML, what matters is how far apart the samples are compared with the width of the gold zone. Below, the same narrow zone (orange) sampled three ways.
No sample lands in the gold zone.
A rough picture. It can find a broad anomaly but can miss a narrow vein zone completely, and the mapping has to stay simple.
3 samples land in the gold zone.
A good first pass. It shows where the gold is and which way it runs.
12 samples land in the gold zone.
Good for choosing pit spots. Every target sits close to real samples.
The economical way: about 40 samples at 50 m over the whole licence, then 30–60 more at 25 m only around the hot spot. PitMap shows where to put them. Sample in lines across the direction the reefs run, not along it.
No subscription. You buy credits and use them only when you need a map, a target or a report. If a map fails, nothing is charged.
Everything is free while PitMap is in its launch period.
| Upload and check your lab results | Free |
|---|---|
| Hot-spot map of a licence | TZS 60,000 per 10 samples, at least TZS 300,000. The first map of every licence is free. |
| Other methods on the same samples | Free for 30 days |
| Exact spot and GPS of a dig target | TZS 150,000 per target |
| PDF report | TZS 150,000 |
| Grid, contour and target files | TZS 90,000 |
| Everything on one map: all targets, PDF and files | TZS 600,000 |
Create an account and open the demo licence: real soil samples, a finished map and three targets. No data of your own needed.