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GDI June 2010

Where sonic is making waves

GDI profiles the leading manufacturers of sonic drilling equipment and outlines their capabilities Full story...



Reports

Between a rock and a hard place

GDI profiles new equipment and products for quarrying Full story...

Bursting with new ideas

Cirrus has been using AirBurst Technology to rehabilitate and clean up water boreholes Full story...

Magco guides the way in Phoenix

Dan Gay, senior estimator/project manager at Magco Drilling, reports on two shaft-drilling projects carried out at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Terminal 4 and Guideway Full story...
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Comment

Making light work of hard rock

IN OCTOBER 2008, GDI reported that search engine Google had taken an interest in geothermal energy, through its philanthropic arm Google.org, investing over US$10 million in EGS technology... Full story...
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Drill Pads

Aarsleff proves its worth

Worthing Borough Council has been performing essential maintenance on the timber-framed landing stage surrounding the end of the West Sussex town’s 150-year-old Grade II-listed pier. Full story...

Innovation energises Sauerland pyramids

The Sauerland pyramids in Lennestadt, Germany, situated on a mountain overlooking the town of Meggen, have undergone an innovative energy concept. Full story...

Sonic rigs rescue Surrey school installation

TR3 Geological Services won a tender to install a geothermal grid during the summer of 2009, under what would be Woodward Hill Elementary School’s brand new, all-weather soccer field in Surrey. Full story...

Fugro in Sierra Leone

African Minerals has awarded Fugro a contract for a site investigation related to the development of Freetown Port in Sierra Leone. Full story...

Schlumberger expands

Schlumberger has acquired GeothermEx, a California-based global provider of geothermal consulting services. Full story...

Sierra in alum geo find

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Trevi Icos Corp scoops US$4.6m Harvard Art Museum work

Trevi Icos Corp has been awarded a prestigious new contract in the US worth about US$4.6 million. Full story...

Quebec hard-rock bridging

In Quebec, a Spanish-Canadian consortium is building the Nouvelle Autoroute 30 highway, bypassing Montreal at the south towards the A20 and A40 in the west. Full story...

Junttan Oy buys up ExcaDrill

FINLAND-BASED Junttan Oy is buying ExcaDrill, PiloMac Oy’s rock-drilling equipment unit. Full story...
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Rigs & Supplies

Devico to partner Atlas Copco in SA

Norway-based Devico has signed an agent agreement with Atlas Copco, the leading supplier to the exploration-drilling market in South Africa and neighbouring countries. Full story...

IMER signs pump deal

The IMER Group concrete machinery division is launching an innovative and complete range of truck-mounted concrete pumps. Full story...

Hydraquip buys BCS

Hydraquip Hose & Hydraulics has acquired the assets of Grimsby-based BCS Hydraulics & Pneumatics, which it will be operating as a branch of Hydraquip Hose & Hydraulics from May. Full story...

Enoscientific sounds out wells

US-based Enoscientific has launched the Well Sounder 2010, a self-contained, portable, acoustic-ranging instrument, designed to find the distance through a pipe or borehole to an obstruction. Full story...

Glasmedia natural replacement

In the drilling industry, historically, conventional practice has been to use natural, round filter sands and gravels when installing monitoring and water-abstraction wells. Full story...

Atlas Copco opts for EGR/DPF system

Atlas Copco Portable Air has selected the EGR/DPF system to make its portable compressors compliant with EPA Tier 4A/EU Stage III B. The first prototype of a XRHS 366 unit was shown at Bauma. Full story...

McElroy socket tooling kits aim to make life simpler

US-BASED McElroy said its new socket-tooling kits are set to simplify the working lives of contractors. Full story...

Van Walt launches SMS Well Modem

Van Walt has unveiled a well modem that uses SMS (text)/GPRS for remote wireless data communications. Full story...

Nibe gains two firms

NIBE Energy Systems (previously NIBE Heating) has acquired two new companies: ABK in Norway and Lotus Heating Systems in Denmark. Full story...

Boart upstages other bits

Boart Longyear has upgraded and expanded its Stage diamond coring bit line. Full story...

Deutz engine fluid tips

To coincide with the introduction of the new Tier 4 Interim/Stage III B engine generation, Deutz is making recommendations on the choice of service fluid. Full story...
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Drillers Log

Bauma hit by airspace closure

Bauer Maschinen GmbH has said exhibitors and visitors alike will remember Bauma 2010 as “the Bauma under the ash cloud”. Full story...

Greenfield exploration call

Australia’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost destinations for mineral exploration is under threat from a critical market failure. Full story...

Bauer foursome tackles 3 Peaks Challenge

A quartet from Hertfordshire, UK-based Bauer Technologies Ltd has raised £5,500 for The COINS Foundation, a charity focused on tackling poverty in Africa. Full story...

Lankelma seminar

Lankelma will hold a 10th anniversary seminar on June 10 at its East Sussex headquarters. Speakers will include Tom Lunne, of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, and Mike Long, from University College Dublin. Full story...

SA drill insights

The Geological Society of South Africa will present a course in Johannesburg on drilling methods and techniques in exploration and mining from July 15-16. Full story...

NDA convention

Plans for the 2010 National Drilling Association convention are underway with the event due to take place September 29 to October 1 in Chesterfield, Missouri, US. Full story...

Stuart Well Services teams up with Water for Africa

Stuart Well Services has donated supplies and drilling materials for the creation of water wells in deprived areas of The Gambia in Africa. Full story...

Northwest set for green training centre

A new training centre dedicated to green energy microgeneration technologies is to be opened later this year on the Wirral in the UK. Full story...

Spectrometery course

The Spectroscopic Society of South Africa and the Central Analytical Facility at the University of Stellenbosch have introduced a five-day course in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Full story...

Eastern water focus

From September 26-29, the Ground Water Protection Council, in partnership with other US organisations, will host the second Water/Energy Sustainability Symposium. Full story...

Euro energy target

The European Parliament’s second reading vote in plenary on May 18 strengthened the provisions of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Full story...
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Features

Where sonic is making waves

GDI profiles the leading manufacturers of sonic drilling equipment and outlines their capabilities Full story...

Diedrich sets out sonic stall

Until last year, US-based Diedrich Drill only sold its sonic head to other rig manufacturers, but then it decided to build its own sonic track rig using the knowledge it had learned from customers’ experiences, writes Diedrich Drill director Jim Lange Full story...

Speed and accuracy score points for Newmont

Senior drill service consulting expert Denis Rousseau introduced sonic at Newmont Mining’s Minera Yanacocha gold mine in Peru almost eight years ago Full story...
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Core Issues

Buyers beware! How responsible are you?

Per Karschowski, director of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, at Achilles Group, highlights the risks and misconceptions surrounding health and safety issues, and second and third-tier suppliers – particularly pertinent to the construction sector Full story...
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