Japanese construction and mining contractors—Shimizu Corporation's tunnel projects in Honshu's granite and andesite, and the Sumitomo Metal Mining operations in Ehime Prefecture—apply the Japanese manufacturing discipline of absolute dime...
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UK tunneling and underground civil work—Crossrail's Thames Tunnel extension, HS2 tunnel sections through the Chilterns, and hard-rock quarrying in Wales and Scotland—uses Atlas Copco RD18U drifters in environments where the nitrogen charg...
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Sweden is Atlas Copco's home market—the company's drilling heritage runs from the 1873 tunneling work in Stockholm through the modern Epiroc spinoff in 2018. Swedish mining contractors treat original overhaul kits with a specificity that reflec...
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French infrastructure contractors—working on the Grand Paris Express tunnel expansion, the Lyon-Turin Alpine rail base tunnel, and hard-rock quarrying in the Massif Central—treat Atlas Copco RD18U overhaul kits as a quality-controlled pro...
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South Africa's deep-level gold mining—at depths exceeding 3,500 meters in the Witwatersrand Basin—operates under some of the most demanding occupational safety regulations for mining equipment globally. The Mines Health and Safety Act and...
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The return-wave damping system in the Atlas Copco RD18U absorbs the tensile stress wave that reflects back from the rock face after each percussion blow. Without it, that wave travels up the drill string to the shank adapter and into the drifter hous...
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Saudi Arabia's phosphate mining at Ma'aden's Wa'ad Al Shamal complex and the gold mining operations in the Arabian Shield operate in one of the world's most thermally demanding surface environments: ambient temperatures reaching 48°C in summer mo...
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Thailand's mining sector—potash in Udon Thani, zinc at Mae Sot, fluorite and limestone quarrying across the central highlands—operates RD18U drifters across a range of formation types and drilling orientations. The connecting plate is the...
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Vale's Carajás complex in northern Pará state presents a drill bearing with a problem that doesn't appear on the surface and isn't obvious until bearing failures start clustering at a specific drilling depth. The Carajás ore body...
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Chile's copper mining industry—Codelco's Chuquicamata and El Teniente, Antofagasta's Los Pelambres, BHP's Escondida—represents the world's largest concentration of copper extraction, and a correspondingly large installed base of Atlas Cop...
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Peru's mining sector—centered on copper at Antamina and Cerro Verde, silver and zinc at Antapaccay, and gold across the Andes cordillera—drills through some of the hemisphere's hardest and most abrasive formations. Quartzite, skarn, and p...
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Malaysia's underground mining and civil tunneling programs—most recently including infrastructure tunneling under Kuala Lumpur's urban core and hard-rock quarrying in Perak's limestone and granite highlands—operate in near-constant high h...
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