Sentences with phrase «diamond drilling»

Diamond drilling refers to a drilling technique that uses a special tool with small diamonds embedded in it to cut through hard materials like concrete, rock, or metal. The diamonds on the drill tip help to create clean and precise holes with minimal effort and damage. Full definition
The next step may or may not include diamond drilling.
About 2,500 metres of underground diamond drilling begins this week aimed at further extending the mine plan and potentially allowing an increase in the mining rate.
Approximately $ 2 million was incurred on the claims from magnetic, radiometric, electromagnetic and radon gas surveys through to a successful 20 - hole diamond drill program totalling 3,075 metres.
Swick will deploy four diamond drilling rigs to two of Independence Group's mining operations in WA.
A single historic diamond drill hole found about 150 metres of syenite and foliated mafic tuff.
There has been 42,000 metres of historic diamond drilling (141 holes) completed on the Project by prior operators.
Finally, the Breakthrough Institute has produced excellent evidence that government subsidies for speculative technologies and research over at least 35 years have played a role in the development of the energy boom's key technology enablers: 3 - D seismology, diamond drill bits, horizontal drilling, and others.
Pure Gold Mining Inc. [PGM - TSXV; LRTNF - OTC] reported results from diamond drilling targeting the McVeigh horizon at its 100 % - owned Madsen Gold Project located 16 km west of Red Lake, northern Ontario....
Using diamond drills, Progressive believes in using state - of - the - art equipment to reduce cost per foot drilled.
The initial program, of up to six holes totalling up to 1000 metres of diamond drilling, will aim to confirm and extend historic high - grade underground sampling to define the potential for high - grade shoots in the Akebono vein system.
Utah's Frank Christensen has a worldwide business in diamond drills.
Classic Minerals» keenly anticipated diamond drill program is underway at the Lady Magdelene gold deposit near Southern Cross in Western Australia.
TWO decades after Riversgold's Allan Kelly first panned gold in Alaska's Tintina gold province, he's getting set to have a serious exploration crack at the big picture target including diamond drilling later this year.
This work culminated in five deep diamond drill holes targeted mainly on Tokusei mine extensions.
Vancouver - headquartered Angkor Gold Corp., a leading mineral explorer in Cambodia, has announced an additional diamond drill and regional exploration program at Halo on Angkor's Oyadao South licence, in conjunction with its exploration partner, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC).
With drilling on the Irvine West Flank returning a best intercept of 9m at 1.3 gpt gold from 7m downhole, Navarre is planning to start a deeper reverse circulation and diamond drilling campaign in either February or March this year.
There have been 9,666 metres of historic diamond drilling (54 holes) completed on Mazoa Hill by prior operators that resulted in a historical mineral resource estimate.
A 5,000 - metre RC and diamond drilling program is well underway at the project with the objective of upgrading the upper portion of the mineral resource from inferred to indicated status.
42,000 metres of diamond drilling (141 holes) has been performed on the property's hard - rock by prior operators.
We have to figure out everything, ranging from simple stuff, like where to buy a generator and an air conditioner — because you have to have an air conditioner if you want to have any Canadian or European geologists on site — to where to find a backhoe, a backhoe operator and fuel for the backhoe, not to mention a diamond drill
At the Katete target area, assay results from RC and diamond drilling are expected in a little over a fortnight.
The diamond drill program now underway will be used primarily to obtain the structural data needed to determine the orientation of any high - grade gold lodes.
RC drilling at the Trudi epithermal quartz vein is due to resume next month, with a diamond drill rig now ready to start cranking after a break enforced by the wet season.
OceanaGold announces that results from a diamond drilling program at Frasers Underground Mine have identified extensions to gold mineralisation down dip from current underground mining operations.
Neither are graduating students — whether in the mining technician, diamond drilling or mineral processing streams — worried about the job market that awaits them.
Cardinal said 5,000 metres of reverse circulation and diamond drilling is set to commence in the third quarter of 2018 to follow up the widely - spaced first pass results.
For cutting the holes, I used a diamond drill bit.
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