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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Indonesia's nickel laterite belt—from Halmahera to Sulawesi—has driven one of the world's fastest-growing mining investment programs in the past decade, and with it a large installed base of Atlas Copco RD18U drifters in underground explo...
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Australian hard-rock operations—from Goldfields-Agnico's Fosterville gold mine in Victoria to Evolution Mining's Cowal open-pit and the copper operations around Mount Isa—share a climatic condition that most European equipment documentati...
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Canadian hard-rock mining from the Timmins gold camp in Ontario to the Sudbury nickel basin and the potash mines of Saskatchewan spans a wider range of operating temperatures than most equipment is explicitly designed for. A drifter diaphragm specifi...
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Poland's hard coal and copper mining operations—KGHM Polska Miedź in the Lubin-Sieroszowice copper district and JSW's coking coal mines in Silesia—run some of the highest-utilization drill fleets in European underground mining. Two-shift ...
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Russia's mining belt stretches from the Kola Peninsula's nickel deposits in the northwest to the gold fields of Magadan on the Pacific. RD18U drifters operate across this geography in conditions that span −45°C Siberian winter startups at t...
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Norway's underground construction sector drills through some of the most structurally complex rock in Europe. The Oslo Fjord tunnel projects, the hydropower adits in Hardanger, and the road tunnels through the gneiss and amphibolite of the Bergen Arc...
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Finland's mining sector runs some of the world's most demanding continuous percussion programs. At Agnico Eagle's Kittilä gold mine in Lapland and Boliden's Pyhäsalmi copper-zinc operation, jumbo drills cycle through two-shift daily percuss...
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German tunneling contractors building infrastructure under the Rhine valley and through the Erzgebirge mountains have a different relationship with seal kit quality than surface quarry operators in softer terrain. The groundwater here is cold, minera...
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