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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
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 LangeDepth in Venice
Giovanni Polloni and Alessandro Olcese report on a deep and tricky HDD canal crossing beneath Venice’s lagoonAt the core of drilling
Boart Longyear has presented innovations in drilling technology for over a century, writes Brandon Jaynes, Two Rivers MarketingExtreme coring
Designing and operating a core barrel for the Iceland Deep Drilling Project, by Alister Skinner, Paul Bowers, Sverrir Þórhallsson, Guðmundur Ómar Friðleifsson and Hermann GuðmundssonMerton applies own rule
When the UK’s Merton Council won £1.5 million from the London Development Agency towards building the first purpose-built Intergenerational Centre (IGC), it relished the challenge, but faced two issues.New geothermal rig from Boart
Boart Longyear has released the DB95GT, a versatile and compact multi-purpose drill, designed for commercial and residential geothermal applications. It can handle several drilling methods.Ground source – the state of the industry
Lack of design expertise in the ground-source industry is driving business into the arms of other technologies, writes Andy Howley, a certified geo-exchange designer and director at Loopmaster (Europe)Singapore’s Downtown Linegoes underground at Bugis
A TOTAL of 11 Liebherr excavator rigs, including seven HS 855 HD dutycycle crawler cranes, are being used by French contractor Soletanche Bachy to excavate deep trenches for the slurry wall being built as part of the Bugis interchange station at the new Downtown Mass Rapid Transit Line (DTL) in Singapore.Two BSP heavyweights for New Orleans surge barrier
BRITISH piling equipment manufacturer BSP International Foundations has supplied two of its heavy-duty hydraulic piling hammers for use in the construction of the world’s largest surge barrier, designed to protect the coastal city of New Orleans in Louisiana.Site Search
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