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Boart Longyear is a leading supplier of products, systems and services to the mining, tunnelling, construction and quarrying industries worldwide. The company applies its expertise in industrial diamond and tungsten carbide technologies to contract drilling services, coring and hardrock tools production, mining and tunnelling equipment manufacture, and other industrial activities. It also produces an extensive range of geotechnical instrumentation.
 


The Boart Longyear group comprises over 40 operating companies, employing 6,700 people in 38 countries. It is structured on a regional basis, in order to be as close as possible to its markets.


Core Drilling
Products and services include surface and underground diamond drilling machines for gold, coal and mineral exploration and development; diamond bits and reaming shells for the exploration industries; and core barrels, drill rods and drilling accessories.


 


Percussive Drilling
Boart Longyear supplies percussive systems, rock drills and drillrigs for the mining, quarrying, tunnelling and surface construction sectors in 29 countries from plants in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Spain and USA. These include an extensive range of rotary percussive drill bits, drill rods, couplings and shank adapters to suit both pneumatic and hydraulic top hammer drilling, as well as a wide range of DTH drilling tools.
 



Surface Coring
The Boart Longyear surface contracting division has 75 years experience in over 50 countries, having revolutionized the core drilling sector with the introduction of its Q wireline system.

The company thrives on the challenges presented by deep holes, remote locations, and technically-demanding projects.

 


Underground Coring

Boart Longyear Contract Drilling Division is one of the world's most prolific and productive underground diamond drilling contractors, providing a total package which includes deep hole directional drilling, service and utility holes, and specialized systems for controlling high pressure formations.

 
Contracting Services
The Percussive Drilling Services Division provides a wide range of skills for inverse raising, drop raising, longwall production drilling, cable bolt installation, and utility service holes.

Environmental and geotechnical teams are expert at sample recovery and maximizing borehole information, providing services to engineering firms, private and public corporations, and government agencies. A large fleet of truck-, track-, and skid-mounted drillrigs is available, together with an extensive inventory of versatile down hole tools.
 

 

Environmental and Geotechnical
The company offers a complete line of products to the geo-environmental, mineral exploration and soils and materials testing markets. It is a single source supplier for auger drills, well construction products, drilling muds and soil sampling tools.

A series of multi-purpose drillrigs is also manufactured for soil investigation, ground consolidation, and waterwell drilling.

 

 

Instrumentation, Testing & Monitoring
Interfels, as part of Boart Longyear Instrumentation, Testing & Monitoring (ITM) Division, is a world leader and innovator in geotechnical and structural monitoring systems. An extensive range of instruments is available for measuring ground water, movement, temperature and pressure; and in-situ testing in hard and soft rock tunnels.

For the full list of tunnels in which Boart Longyear ITM equipment has been used, visit www.interfels.com

 

 

Ground Engineering
Drum Cutters are supplied for profiling, face cleaning, and scaling; cutting bottoms, niches, and trenches; and trimming sprayed concrete. Mounted on a suitable excavator, these can cut up to 10 cu m/h in UCS of up to 80 Mpa. For overburden drilling, flushing heads, double head systems with integrated hydraulic drifters or DTH hammers, jet grouting attachments and auger systems are available.

 

 

Boart Longyear Corporate
204 Rivonia Road, Morningside 2057, South Africa, tel +27 11 520 9300, fax +27 11 783 2411, e-mail info@cor.boartlongyear.co.za or visit www.boartlongyear.com

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