SITE INVESTIGATION

Getting through a hard place

Joe Haynes of Little Beaver tells GDI about the company’s innovative Lone Star Drills product family, designed to be a convenient, powerful solution in areas with minimal resources for transportation and operation that can be used for DTH projects.

Joe Haynes
 A DTH hammer can drill as deep as 300ft through limestone, sandstone and quartzite faster than standard mud rotary bits

A DTH hammer can drill as deep as 300ft through limestone, sandstone and quartzite faster than standard mud rotary bits

When it comes to drilling, the overburden is usually the easiest layer to deal with. It is when drills finally hit hard rock formations that progress can dramatically slow down. If drilling crews run...

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