What Circle Lab does

A mining operation produces an enormous amount of information every day — where the trucks are, what crossed the border, what arrived at the yard, what was invoiced, what was paid. Most of it ends up scattered across spreadsheets, inboxes and people’s heads.

Circle Lab implements data systems, automations, AI and tailor-made software for mining operations.

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MINE DATA HUB PROCESSING MARKET

One single source of truth instead of scattered spreadsheets.

Better and faster decisions.

Routine work done automatically.

The reports written every morning, not rebuilt every Friday.

What we’ve built

We built this for a publicly listed tin producer in the eastern DRC. Here is what it looks like in practice.

Export tracking

Every lot of concentrate, followed from the mine gate to the buyer — which truck it is on, where it is, what paperwork it carries.

More than 7,000 lots tracked since 2019.
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Inbound tracking

Every shipment of equipment and supplies coming the other way — from South Africa or overseas to the mine, sea, air and road on one live map, with 27 checkpoints on the road leg.

More than 200 shipments and 5,000 tracking events so far.
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Field and yard apps

The people at the yard and the border record what actually happens — arrivals, loadings, seals, photos — on their phones, even with no network. Everything syncs when the signal comes back, straight into the shipment’s record.

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Document filing

Every customs paper, certificate and waybill filed against its shipment, findable in seconds.

More than 45,000 documents, nearly 30 kinds.

Payment matching

Every invoice and every bank payment checked against each other automatically, to the cent. The books and the trucks tell the same story.

Matched automatically, to the cent.

Morning reports

The reports management actually reads — stock, transit, money due, problems — written by the system every day, not by the team.

Close to 50 live views, updated around the clock.
Alexis de Clermont-Tonnerre, Founder of Circle Lab
Alexis de Clermont-Tonnerre Founder
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Who we are

Circle Lab was founded by the person who ran that tin operation’s finance and logistics for years. These systems exist because he needed them.

We take on a small number of new operations each year. If yours moves cargo through a hard corridor, write to us: .

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