Faster, easier access to orebodies

JSE-listed drilling solutions provider Master Drilling will not only exhibit but also launch a new technological advancement – a mechanised blind shaft boring system – at this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba, following a successful experience at the 2015 Cape Town-based event. Master Drilling executive director Koos Jordaan tells Mining Weekly that the new system, on show during the event from February 8 to 11 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, will create access for man-, material- and ventilation shafts of up to 14 m in diameter and up to 2 000 m deep in hard-rock applications.