Rotary Drilling
EMG provides high quality drilling services ranging from small scale and restricted access site investigation contracts through to major drilling campaigns for mineral exploration and geothermal boreholes. Our highly skilled drillers have varied experience with the majority of drilling techniques internationally as well as in the UK. All drilling staff are either NVQ qualified or working towards NVQ accreditation. EMG have invested in the latest high-tech drilling equipment with the aim of providing a wide range of top-quality drilling services to our clients. Our fleet of drilling rigs includes: |
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Commachio GEO205 The Commachio 205 is a light-weight track mounted rotary and percussive rig. With a weight of just 2.5te, a minimum width of 700mm and mast height of 2.6m, the rig is especially useful for sites with restricted access or where minimum environmental impact is required. The 205 is capabale of coring to up to 60mBGL and has been used extensively for drilling open holes for the installation of geothermal loops for ground source heat pumps to a depth of 70m. |
Commachio 450P The 450P is a medium-weight crawler mounted multi purpose rotary rig ideal for shallow-medium depth exploration, geothermal and site investigation drilling projects. The rig has been specially adapted for use on angled holes by and has the addition of a high-speed head suitable for hard-rock coring. The 450P is suitable for open hole drilling to depths of greater than 100mBGL and is capable of small diameter coring to over 150m. |
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Diamond Drilling Equipment EMG maintains a large number of diamond drill rigs from manufacturers Longyear and JKS Boyles suitable for deep exploration drilling to over 100m depth. Capacity will be increased in 2008 with the addition of 2 new Sondeq SS71 and 2 new Atlas Copco CS14 diamond drill rigs. |
Mobile-drill B24 The B24 is a compact rotary rig suitable for a wide range of applications. In 2007 EMG successfully mounted the rig onto an ‘ampherol’ mud crawling craft (Residue All Terrain Vehicle) to undertake a sampling investigation of tailings material at a large bauxite refinery (pictured). |
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Knebel HY77 The Knebil HY77 is a medium to heavy duty rotary drilling rig currently mounted on a 6x6 Bedford truck. The rig is rated to 200m drilling open hole in 200mm diameter and core drilling in SWF size (112mm core). On board equipment includes triplex mud / water flush pump and mist / foam pump. |
Minuteman Rigs The Minuteman rig is a lightweight rig designed for restricted access work and is man portable. The rig is capable of drilling to approximately 20m in suitable ground conditions with lightweight solid and hollow stem augers. There is also a capability for rotary core drilling in B core (42mm core) to limited depths is suitable strata.
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Perscussive Drilling Equipment In addition to the fleet of company-owned rotary rigs, EMG can provide a full range of percussive drilling techniques throughn the use of specialist sub-contactors. |
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Drilling Systems & In-Situ Testing EMG maintains extensive stock of drilling sytems including:
Specialist monitoring and testing equipment includes:
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