BHP begins autonomous blasthole drilling rollout at Spence copper mine …
BHP is one of the most experienced global miners in terms of fully autonomous blasthole drilling, now with a large fleet and having used both new autonomous machines as well as retrofitting older models in the Pilbara going back some years across its Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) operations – most recently at South …
Copper: Eight companies with promising assets
Drill highlights include 11 metres of 1.03 gram gold, 11.47 grams silver, 1.62% copper and 0.2% zinc starting at 15 metres; and 17 metres of 3.42 grams gold, 53.97 grams silver, 3.23% copper and 1 ...
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KAZ Minerals is a high growth copper company focused on large scale, low cost open pit mining in the CIS region, with a proven track record for the successful delivery of greenfield mining projects. ... three underground mines and associated concentrators in the East Region of Kazakhstan and the Bozymchak copper-gold mine in Kyrgyzstan. Explore ...
American Pacific Mobilizes Drill Rig to Madison Copper …
American Pacific Mining Corp. ("American Pacific") is pleased to announce that it has mobilized a drill to its Madison Copper-Gold Project ("Madison" or the "Project") in Montana, in preparation for an initial CAD $1.5 …
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We provide innovative mining equipment, consumables and services for drilling and rock excavation. Whether the application is surface and underground mining, infrastructure, civil works, well drilling or geotechnical, Mining and Rock Excavation Technique will ensure to increase customers' productivity.
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How running rig parts to failure affects the …
Boart Longyear's Drilling Services has daily, weekly, and monthly inspection checklists for all drill rigs. Checklists for regular drill rig inspections doesn't need to be specific to the ...
Core Drilling Rigs | Underground & Surface Exploration
We are a leading supplier of core drilling rigs and offer a broad range of machines for surface and underground. Explore our products now! Read more. ... We are a leading supplier of mining equipment. Core drilling is a specialized area with a unique set of demands. For more than 100 years, people around the world have depended on our …
Innovation in the Mining Industry: Technological Trends and …
Innovation plays a critical role in the mining industry as a tool to improve the efficiency of its processes, to reduce costs, but also to meet the increasing social and environmental concerns among communities and authorities. Technological progress has also been crucial to allow the exploitation of new deposits in more complex scenarios: …
Antapaccay achieves global first with three autonomous
In its own mine operation's regular publication Revista Antapaccay, Edition 61, Peruvian copper mining company Minera Antapaccay talks about its impressive autonomous drill program progress.A year ago Minera Antapaccay marked a milestone both for itself and for parent company Glencore when its first autonomous drill rig went …
Lubambe Copper Mines Limited
Lubambe Copper Mine Limited's ( LCM) financial results to 31 March 2015 showed revenues of K1, 071 million (US$164.7 million (2014: K1, 483 million (US$237 million)) and ... 15 long hole drill rigs. The overall capital cost of this equipment is estimated at US$7.7 million. The implication of this is that the Project Capital cost forecast for ...
Drilling Deeper: Innovations in Mining Drill Rigs and …
Over the past few decades, drilling technology has rapidly evolved, with several innovative solutions emerging in recent years to address key challenges in the …
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There are two main methods of exploration drilling - core drilling and reverse circulation drilling (usually referred to as RC). Core drilling, yields a solid, cylinder shaped sample of the ground at an exact depth. …
American Pacific Mining Mobilizes Drill Rig to Madison Copper …
Drilling will focus both on the near-mine area to extend the known mineralized zone identified through historical drilling, which included intercepts of 14.69 metres ("m") of 12.10 grams per tonne ...
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The Big One: Copper Search mobilises more drill rigs in the …
Continuous drilling planned for the rest of this year and into 2024 on the Peake project . Copper Search's hunt for IOCG-style mineralisation at its Peake project in South Australia is heating up with a second rig mobilised to drill six rotary mud pre-collars ahead of reverse circulation drilling.
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Face Drilling's Cutting Edge
The company has recently delivered a battery-driven bolter and drill rig to KGHM's ZG Lubin copper mine in Poland for testing in real-world mining conditions. The Roof Master 1.8KE bolting rig, with a transport height of 5.9 ft (1.8 m), is designed for roof bolting in mine headings from 9.8-19.4 ft in height with bolts 5.9 ft in length and a ...
Pantera DPi series drill rigs provide improved technical
The Pantera DPi surface top hammer drill rigs are intelligent, self-propelled, crawler-based surface drill rigs designed to be used in quarrying, production drilling and wall control and ...
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Drilling Through History
George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a commercial well drilled especially to produce oil in Pennsylvania. They drilled to 69 feet. Photo source: Public Domain. ... Arthur L. Hawkesworth of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company developed the first extensively-used detachable rock drill bit. Read more ...
Solved A new copper mine is to be started-up. A 60m wide
A 60m wide orebody outcrops on surface and dips at 85 degree towards the south. The orebody is economic up to 200m below surface. From 200m further deep the grades are very poor. Open pit has a limit of 150m. below that an underground mine has to take over. Underground equipment will include LHD's, drill rigs, some
Drill rigs | Leading manufacturer for 140 years | Epiroc US
Epiroc is a one of the leading drill rig manufacturers in the world. We offer rock drilling machines and other equipment for many different applications. For example; oil and gas, …
Mongolian Copper Miner Orders Five Drill Rigs | E & MJ
Tsagaan Suvarga ranks as the third-largest copper and molybdenum reserve in Mongolia. "We are very pleased to be selected to supply our advanced …
Leopard DI650i drill rigs improving health and …
Two new Leopard DI650i drills are reducing the carbon footprint, and improving the health and safety of operators, at the Stockton mine in New Zealand, mine operator Bathurst Resources says. The operation's previous drills used 90 litres of diesel per hour, but the drills have cut that down to just 65 litres per hour ...
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Next generation drill rig delivered to Finsch diamond mine
Mining and Rock Solutions has delivered a DD422i development drill to the Finsch diamond mine in the Northern Cape. Owned by Petra Diamonds, Finsch – currently a sub-level caving operation – is one of South Africa's biggest diamond mines, producing 1.3 million carats in Petra's 2022 financial year.
Marimaca stock up on new drill results at copper project
This particular drill hole intersected 30 metres at 0.99% total copper from a depth of 62 metres within a broader zone of 68 metres at 0.51% total copper from the same depth.