From Rig to Boardroom — Measured.Connected.
Master Drilling has built the world's largest raise boring fleet and forty years of mining services expertise across 29 countries. ALDC has built the operating intelligence layer that turns rich enterprise data into decisions. Can we be better together? Let's find out.
Specialists across 5 continents
Countries of operation
Years pioneering raise boring
Two Experts. One Conversation.
Master Drilling runs hundreds of projects across 29 countries on 5 continents, with the world's largest raise boring fleet and specialised exploration and mining services teams. Forty years of expertise built that. Nobody runs that business better.
ALDC builds operating intelligence. Our platform turns the rich data inside enterprise operations — rig telemetry, project finance, safety, ESG, customer experience — into decisions, in minutes rather than months. The conversations below are the levers we move every day for clients at this scale.
We bring confidence in what the platform does. We bring curiosity about how Master Drilling already runs. The question is whether putting them together makes the next forty years sharper than the last.
Can we be better together? Let's find out.
Where ALDC Tends to Compound
Project Profitability
Hundreds of projects, dozens of currencies, a fleet built for raise boring, exploration, and mining services. ALDC builds the layer that lets leadership read true project margin in real time — and we'd want to see how Master Drilling already does it before suggesting a thing.
Fleet Utilization
On the world's largest raise boring fleet, even a few points of utilization compound into meaningful drilled metres. The ALDC platform turns rig and dispatch data into a single live operating picture — across regions, configurations, and crews.
Safety, ESG & Customer Reporting
Tier-one mining customers and global regulators are converging on real-time safety and ESG transparency. ALDC's operating intelligence layer is built for that shift, with reporting flows that match what customers actually ask for.
The System-Level View
Master Drilling already operates at remarkable scale — the world’s largest raise boring fleet, programmes on five continents, tier-one customers across copper, gold, PGM, and base metals. The question isn’t whether the data exists. It’s whether it sits together in one operating picture.
Master Drilling Operating Ecosystem
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Service Lines
Tier-One Customers
Operating Regions
One global fleet, three continental theatres
29+ countries — one operating picture
Three Layers of the Operating Picture
Operating intelligence at this scale lives on three layers. The first two organise what already exists. The third turns forty years of drilling expertise into decision-grade signal — available the moment it’s needed.
Fleet & Operations
The rigs and the metres
Rig-level utilization, drilled metres per shift, downtime cause-codes, dispatch patterns — the operational heartbeat across the global fleet, from raise boring to exploration to mining services.
Projects & Margin
The economics of the work
Real-time margin per project, per rig, per region. Multi-currency consolidation across continents. Cost-to- complete forecasting, bid-to-actual variance, customer- concentration intelligence.
Knowledge & Safety
The compounding asset
Forty years of raise boring know-how, project case files, safety incidents, ESG metrics — turned into a searchable, durable asset that compounds with every project, available to bid teams, planners, and crews.
What the operating systems do well
- Run the rigs, the projects, the safety programme
- Capture transactions, telemetry, and incidents
- Generate the reports each function needs
- Stay in the hands of the people who chose them
What sits on top, alongside them
- Cross-system queries the operating systems can’t answer alone
- One picture across rigs, projects, safety, customer
- Conversational access to forty years of history
- Customer- and JSE-grade reporting in minutes, not weeks
The operating systems stay where they are. The intelligence layer rides alongside.
“Most operators have the data. Few have the picture.”
ALDC’s contribution sits on top of the systems Master Drilling already runs. Same crews, same rigs, sharper signal — with the conversation, the analytics, and the customer reporting all working from the same source.
Where the Platform Lands
Seven roles where ALDC tends to compound the most for global services operators. Each gets sharper signal from the same shared platform.
CEO & Managing Director
Enterprise platformWhere It Lands
Strategic decisions at 29-country, JSE-listed scale move faster on fresh operating signal. ALDC compresses the loop from weeks to minutes — without changing how the business is run.
What ALDC Brings
A live picture across raise boring, exploration, and mining services. One view of fleet utilization, project margin, and crew safety, refreshed continuously.
Where It Compounds
Earlier reads on which regions and rig classes are pulling ahead. Faster, more confident strategic capital decisions.
Chief Financial Officer
Enterprise platformWhere It Lands
Multi-currency, multi-region project finance is rich and complex. The ALDC platform connects operating systems into clean, audit-ready financial signal — without disturbing the ledgers of record.
What ALDC Brings
Multi-currency consolidation, project-level WIP, AR aging, and cost-to-complete dashboards sourced directly from operating data.
Where It Compounds
Sharper, faster financial reads. Margin drift caught at the project level. Investors and analysts working from cleaner numbers.
COO & Head of Operations
Per-region moduleWhere It Lands
Rig telemetry, dispatch systems, and field reports each carry part of the operating picture. ALDC weaves them into one — across regions, rig classes, and crews — with the latency operations actually needs.
What ALDC Brings
A unified fleet operations layer: rig utilization, downtime cause-codes, drilled metres per shift, and crew availability across every region.
Where It Compounds
On a fleet of this scale, even small utilization improvements compound into meaningful drilled metres without buying another rig.
Head of Raise Boring & Mining Services
Practice moduleWhere It Lands
Forty years of raise boring expertise is a remarkable knowledge asset. ALDC turns it into something every project planner can lean on — drilling parameters, configurations, outcomes — searchable across the global fleet.
What ALDC Brings
Project performance benchmarking across every site Master Drilling has run. Configuration patterns and outcomes available for the next bid, the next plan, the next crew brief.
Where It Compounds
Compounds the team's expertise. The best of every prior project shows up in the next one.
HSE & Sustainability Director
Compliance moduleWhere It Lands
Customer- and regulator-driven expectations around safety and ESG transparency keep moving. ALDC's reporting layer is built to keep up — aligned to international standards, shaped per customer.
What ALDC Brings
A unified safety and ESG data layer: incident reporting, environmental metrics, and customer-specific compliance views.
Where It Compounds
Lead with safety and ESG transparency in every customer conversation. Reporting that strengthens — not slows — the licence to operate in every country.
Major Customer Account Leads
Per-accountWhere It Lands
Tier-one mining customers — Anglo American, Codelco, Glencore, Gold Fields, Agnico Eagle — are moving fast on live project visibility. ALDC builds the customer-facing layer that puts Master Drilling ahead of that curve.
What ALDC Brings
Customer-facing project portals: drilled metres, schedule, safety, and ESG metrics, branded and scoped per account. Same data Master Drilling uses internally.
Where It Compounds
Differentiates on transparency. Wins and renews strategic contracts by giving customers the modern project experience they're starting to expect from any long-term partner.
Board & JSE Investors
Where It Lands
JSE-listed (MDI) means quarterly investor expectations sit alongside multi-decade strategic decisions. ALDC equips the board with operating data that matches the clarity of the strategy itself.
What ALDC Brings
An investor-grade reporting layer sitting on operating data: trended utilization, project margin, safety, and ESG metrics — sourced directly, never reassembled.
Where It Compounds
Tells the operating story with confidence. Investors and analysts working from consistent, timely metrics that make the long-term thesis easier to back.
A Path We Know Works
Four phases ALDC has run with enterprise operators before. The sequence is proven; the scope and pace get shaped to Master Drilling's priorities, not the other way around.
Operating Picture
Phase 1
One live view across raise boring, exploration, and mining services. Whatever Master Drilling needs first — fleet, region, project — that's where we start.
Project Profitability
Phase 2
Real-time margin per project, per rig, per region, with multi-currency consolidation. Lined up with how Master Drilling already runs the work.
Customer Experience & ESG
Phase 3
Customer-facing project portals and ESG reporting flows that match what tier-one mining customers are starting to demand — sourced from operating data the team already trusts.
Predictive & Strategic
Phase 4
Predictive maintenance, bid-pricing intelligence, and scenario modelling. The intelligence layer that compounds 40+ years of drilling experience into faster, sharper strategic decisions.
Operating Picture
One live view across raise boring, exploration, and mining services. Whatever Master Drilling needs first — fleet, region, project — that's where we start.
Project Profitability
Real-time margin per project, per rig, per region, with multi-currency consolidation. Lined up with how Master Drilling already runs the work.
Customer Experience & ESG
Customer-facing project portals and ESG reporting flows that match what tier-one mining customers are starting to demand — sourced from operating data the team already trusts.
Predictive & Strategic
Predictive maintenance, bid-pricing intelligence, and scenario modelling. The intelligence layer that compounds 40+ years of drilling experience into faster, sharper strategic decisions.
How the Sector Is Moving
Drilling and mining services peers are each moving on operating data in their own way. The direction is unmistakable. The advantage compounds for whoever moves first and best.
Major Drilling
C$761MCanadian-listed peer with global mining services footprint. Public reporting puts rig productivity and crew utilization at the centre of the operating story — a clear signal of where the sector is heading.
Boart Longyear
GlobalLong-running drilling services and tooling provider. Customer service contracts increasingly come with data deliverables attached. Mining customers expect digital fluency from drilling partners now, not in five years.
Geodrill
AfricaAfrica-focused exploration drilling specialist. Demonstrates the operating clarity that comes from disciplined regional reporting at the rig and shift level.
Foraco
Multi-regionMulti-continent mineral and water drilling operator. Reflects the broader market shift toward integrated operating data, safety, and ESG transparency for mining clients.
ALDC is built for exactly this shape of operator. Whether the fit serves Master Drilling's plans is the conversation worth having.
Global mining drilling services market
Integration Architecture
ALDC sits alongside the operating systems Master Drilling already runs. No rip-and-replace, no disruption to a single shift. The intelligence layer goes on top of what already works.
Built to Connect, Not Replace
Categories below are common building blocks at this scale; the actual stack gets mapped together
Global drilling operations run on a layered technology stack — rig telemetry, project accounting, dispatch, HSE, and customer reporting tools, each chosen for good reason. ALDC connects across them into a unified operating view, without disrupting a system the crews already trust.
Master Drilling's Systems
The rig, ERP, dispatch, HSE, and customer systems the team has chosen and refined over years. They stay exactly where they are.
ALDC Intelligence
Unified analytics, real-time dashboards, AI insights. The intelligence layer that makes your data work together.
Where ALDC Tends to Compound
Project Margin
Sharper, faster project-level margin signals
Fleet Utilization
A unified, near-real-time operating picture
Customer & ESG Reporting
Customer- and regulator-shaped reporting flows
Same crews, same rigs, sharper signal. ALDC rides alongside what already works.
What Tends to Move
Ranges ALDC has moved at enterprise operators of similar scale. Master Drilling's baseline is Master Drilling's; the platform's leverage is the platform's.
Revenue & Margin
Range we've moved at similar scale
From sharper cost-to-complete signals
Operational Efficiency
Order of magnitude on automated flows
Where predictive insight pays back
Where the leverage compounds
*Ranges from prior enterprise engagements. The Master Drilling baseline gets established together before any commitment.
Where to From Here?
Master Drilling has built world-leading drilling capability. ALDC has built the operating intelligence layer enterprise leaders trust. We're already in the room — so the question isn't whether to talk, it's where to start.
What would Master Drilling want to see hit first?