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Boart Longyear – the preferred drilling partner to the global mining industry

With the world’s largest and most diverse fleet of drilling rigs, it is no surprise Boart Longyear is the drilling partner of choice for many of the world’s largest mining companies.

With a 120-year history, Boart Longyear has assembled the equipment, capability and expertise necessary to support mining projects of all sizes, in any location. Our customers know that partnering with Boart Longyear means consistency; they can be sure when working with us that their project will be completed with a skilled, competent, and compliant crew utilising the safest and most modern equipment and operating to a consistent set of contractual terms and conditions.

With operations in nearly 40 countries, Boart Longyear is also highly adaptable. We understand how to drill safely and productively in extreme weather, at high altitude, in remote or environmentally sensitive locations, in difficult ground formations and at ever greater depths.

Our ability to operate successfully under these conditions is underpinned by a commitment to investing in and developing our drilling technology and skills. We demonstrate this commitment each day as we recover core at record depths and complete holes that others consider impossible.

Safety and compliance – our key priorities

Maintaining our safety record while we operate in such challenging and changing environments is no accident. It reflects an ingrained safety culture across Boart Longyear that is reinforced by robust safety processes and systems. This too requires a commitment to investing in the best safety equipment available and intensive training and to developing drilling methods that are not only more productive for customers but also safer.

In the dynamic mining market, Boart Longyear must be ready to service new projects as and when they emerge, even in countries or jurisdictions where we do not currently operate. When entering new regions, our first step is to establish the legal entity necessary to comply with all applicable labour, tax, safety and other legal requirements. If circumstances in existing geographies change such that we feel that our requirements for legal and safety compliance can no longer be fully satisfied, we exit those geographies.

Expertise and innovation – solving new drilling challenges

Boart Longyear recognises that each drilling project is unique and as such requires a customised approach. Whether the solution is surface coring, reverse circulation, underground coring, production, sonic, or large rotary drilling, we have the world’s largest fleet of rigs for that job. Each of these rigs is operated by a seasoned, professional drill crew who set the standard for our industry.

While the characteristics of different mining projects may vary, the challenge of insufficient or excess water at mine sites is a constant. To meet this challenge, Boart Longyear has built the world’s largest mine water services fleet over the past two years. Utilising advanced tooling and processes for well drilling and development, and skills honed over the past two decades in the world’s most difficult ground formations, our mine water services team is expanding its expertise globally. The result is more wells, sunk in less time, with higher productivity and longer life, at lower overall cost to the customer.

The global expansion of the mine water services team highlights a key Boart Longyear strength: the ability of our drilling teams to acquire and develop specialised skills and technologies on projects throughout the world. Using the world’s largest mineral drilling services operation as a live test environment, we improve upon those skills and technologies, often engineering our own solutions and then deploying them globally, rapidly and in a standardised fashion.