期待变革?
加拿大的 Hollinger 矿场就正在经历一场变革。 这座露天金矿位于蒂明斯市 - 这是安大略省的一座小城市,共有人口大约 45 000 人。 这座矿场隶属 Newmont Goldcorp Porcupine 公司,也是该公司在当地经营的矿场之一。 待剩余金矿采尽之后,这座矿场会被改造成一座公园。 不过,目前这依然是一座完全正常运营的金矿,也是展示露天钻进自动化领域创新的中心舞台。
2019年07月17日
“If you want to test something, bring it to Australia,” says Nigel Deveth, Managing Director of Roc-Drill, a Brisbane-based drilling contractor.
Roc-Drill was established in 2012 as an offshoot of Deveth’s existing company, Deveth Drilling Qld. Deveth’s own history with drilling dates back 32 years via companies such as Geothermal Industries, Deveth Drilling and the formerly family-owned Straitline Australia. For much of that time he has specialized in running Epiroc equipment.
Roc-Drill currently boasts one of the largest fleets of Epiroc crawler drills in Australia. It’s no surprise, then, that Deveth was the first in the country to take on a pair of new SmartROC CL drill rigs. Roc-Drill wanted to put the COPROD-equipped rigs to work in some of the more difficult ground jobs it tackles across Australia and Papua New Guinea. With the COPROD system, developed by Epiroc, the high penetration rate and low fuel consumption of tophammer equipment is married with the hole straightness and hole quality of a down-the-hole drill.
“They have the potential to change how we drill into difficult rock,” says Deveth.
"一旦我们到达那块更坚硬的岩石,我们将获得一致的穿透率。它们真的是不错的机器。"