General
Thin Vein Mining
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Drilling with a Simba 157 at Victor Long Nickel Mine -
Recording a completed hole -
Collaring a hole at The Mount Mine -
The driller adjusts the feed pressure -
Adding a rod -
20m Thin Vein Stope at The Mount Mine -
Thin vein stope at Wendy Gully -
Drilling close to the Hanging Wall -
Drilling single hole pattern at Kundana -
Blowing out a Down Hole -
Foam drilling in broken ground conditions -
Fired stope at Kundana -
Drilling thin stopes 45º dip at Victor Long -
Drilling at Victor Long Nickel -
Fully Stung rail drilling with Simba H157 -
Simba H157 -
Fully Stung rail, drilling thin vein stope at Victor Long
Long Hole Drilling
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Drilling with a Simba 1257 at Jaguar -
Operating a Simba 1257 -
Long Hole Drilling at Daisy Milano -
Simba 253 -
Drilling using RDSA Hybrid Drifter -
The solitude of Long Hole Drilling -
Long Hole Driller at work -
Operate a Simba 253 -
Drilling at Daisy Milano -
Fully stung rail using Simba H157 -
Drilling with a Simba 157 at “The Mount” gold mine -
Keeping an eye on the collar -
Drilling a long hole rise -
Drilling down holes with Simba 253 -
Drilling up holes with a Simba 253 -
Driller keeping an eye on the collar -
Drilling at Beta Hunt -
All going well -
Simba H253 -
Simba H1357 -
Simba H1357 -
Simba H1257
Slot Rises using Wombat 22-30
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Drilling with the Wombat 22-30 -
Adding a rod -
Pulling rods -
Inserting stabiliser -
Collaring a hole -
Wombat 22-30 set up -
Wombat 22-30 ready to collar -
Wombat 22-30 ready to tram -
Wombat 22-30 set up -
Wombat 22-30 set up -
Using the rod handling crane -
Loading a stabiliser -
Operating the Wombat 22-30 -
The Wombat 22-30 drilling -
Recording drilling parameters -
Drilling large diameter holes at Jaguar -
Large diameter hole at Jaguar -
17 ½” Bit (450mm) and stabiliser -
Wombat 22-30 drills down to a 45º dip -
Wombat 22-30 -
Rod trailer and rod handling crane -
Part way through collaring at Miitel -
Collaring a 450mm hole at Miitel -
Greasing the thread before adding a rod -
Operating at Miitel June 2015 -
Slot Rises at Miitel -
Miitel 2015 -
Close up drilling a slot rise at Miitel -
All going well -
Starting a new rod, drilling a slot rise