CostCraft™ builds the systems that take your lab results, logger data and field records and produce the reports your permits and licences require — checked, structured and consistent every reporting period.
Copper, total — STN-C3
Illustrativemg/L, monthly · synthetic data
We look at what you have: lab exports, logger downloads, field sheets, environmental database outputs, whatever form your monitoring data arrives in.
Your parameters mapped to your permit or licence requirements. No assumptions; every mapping documented.
A reporting system that runs your data against your limits and produces a structured output.
You run it. We're available when something changes.
We work with environmental database exports, logger and monitor downloads, and most standard lab delivery formats.
Worked example, synthetic data: eight lab-export rows in, five clean rows out, three exceptions with a reason each.
| # | Station | Date | Parameter | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stn a1 | 03/09/2026 | Cu (tot) | 0.0042 | mg/L |
| 2 | STN-A1 | 2026-09-03 | Zinc, Total | 38 | ug/L |
| 3 | STN_B2 | Sep 4 2026 | TSS | <2 | mg/l |
| 4 | STN-B2 | 2026-09-04 | pH (lab) | 7.9 | pH units |
| 5 | STN-C3 | 2026-09-05 | Cu (tot) | 0.031 * | mg/L |
| 6 | STN-C3 | 2026-09-05 | Copper, Total | 0.031 | mg/L |
| 7 | STN-D? | 2026-09-06 | Zinc, Total | 0.051 | mg/L |
| 8 | STN-E5 | 06/09/26 | Cd (diss) | n/a | — |
| Station | Date | Parameter | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STN-A1 | 2026-09-03 | Copper, total | 0.0042 | mg/L |
| STN-A1 | 2026-09-03 | Zinc, total | 0.038 | mg/L |
| STN-B2 | 2026-09-04 | TSS | <2.0 | mg/L |
| STN-B2 | 2026-09-04 | pH, lab | 7.90 | pH |
| STN-C3 | 2026-09-05 | Copper, total | 0.031 | mg/L |
| Row | Station | Status | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | STN-C3 | Flagged | Duplicate of row 5 after the parameter names were matched. Kept once; the lab qualifier "*" needs a source. |
| 7 | STN-D? | Flagged | Station code not in the station list. Not guessed. |
| 8 | STN-E5 | Flagged | No value ("n/a") and no unit. Left out of the totals. |
Our compliance reporting work is concentrated in British Columbia and the Yukon, where mining water licence requirements and environmental monitoring obligations create the most complex reporting demands.
Our work is concentrated where regulated data and operational reporting create the most friction — resource operations, environmental monitoring, and capital-intensive organizations across British Columbia and the Yukon.
We build and run monthly compliance reporting for mining operations in northern Canada.
You are. CostCraft builds the data handling and the reporting. The interpretation, the professional judgment and the sign-off stay with your qualified professional. We don't write the professional opinion, and we don't submit anything on your behalf.
Yes, without taking our word for it. Any number in the report traces back to the source row it came from, and the checks that run every cycle can be run by your own people. When something doesn't reconcile, it shows rather than being quietly absorbed.
It depends on the size of the change. A new threshold, a new station, a changed limit — those are configuration, and they're quick. A structural change, where the shape of what you report is different, is a piece of work and we'll scope it. Either way, you're not rebuilding from scratch.
It depends how different the new format is. Source formats change, and the system is built knowing it. A format close to the old one is a mapping change and it's quick. A genuinely different one is a piece of work, and we'll scope it before starting.
Yes, and normally as part of the build. Past records usually need the same work the new ones do, and having them in means you can see trends rather than just the current month.
Book a free 30-minute data review. You describe what you're working with; we'll tell you what a system would look like.