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Industry-defining rigs and tooling – designed to cut trip times, reduce operator fatigue, and increase revenue.
Drilling Systems
Top-Drive
Productivity and safety come together in Boart Longyear’s offering of tilting top-drive coring drill rigs. Answering your demand for innovative rod handling, the FREEDOM™ Loader and top-drive coring rig combinations provide simple, fast, 100% hands-free rod tripping.
Chuck Drive
The simple yet powerful hydraulic system and ergonomic controls make these chuck-drive drills the machine of choice for diamond core drilling in harsh conditions. For proven reliability and productivity, count on Boart Longyear’s chuck drive coring drill rigs for more uptime and more meters.
Boart Longyear offers an innovative range of underground diamond coring equipment for mineral development and exploration. Providing reliable, high-performance deep hole drilling with economical maintenance costs, our LM™ Modular Diamond Drill System is used extensively all over the world under varying climate conditions. Major LM™ series components are designed to be readily interchangeable to adapt to variable onsite requirements and are capable of both conventional and heavy duty wireline core retrieval.
Boart Longyear’s experience in sonic drilling, engineering, and manufacturing makes us the trusted experts in the field.
Sonic drilling uses high-frequency, resonant energy to advance a core barrel or casing into subsurface formations. During drilling, the resonant energy is transferred down the drill string to the bit face at various sonic frequencies. Simultaneously rotating the drill string evenly distributes the energy and impact at the bit face.
LX Multipurpose Drills
Some contractors need a drill that does it all. Configurable for various drilling techniques in exploration, geotechnical or construction, our heavy-duty multipurpose drilling equipment has proven itself time and time again in the most demanding conditions all across the globe.
Bits and Tooling
Since 1958, Boart Longyear has been the undisputed, worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of wireline coring rods. Whether you need our new SuperQ™ thread for standard depths, XQ™ thread for deep holes, or HD thread for large diameters, we have a rod to meet your diamond core drilling needs.
Our diamond products were originally developed by Anglo American Corporation in the 1930s as a way to commercialize industrial-grade diamonds for the world’s leading diamond producer. Boart Products led the research and development program which enabled practical and reliable manufacturing of diamond coring bits.
As we entered our ninth decade, our engineers in North Bay, Ontario secured a reliable source of high-performance synthetic diamonds which triggered the development of a completely revolutionary bit design – the impregnated-diamond bit. With decades of powder metallurgy experience behind them, Longyear engineers set out to develop a new crown which consisted of synthetic diamonds evenly distributed throughout a composite matrix. This new design could drill further and faster than surface-set bits and it cut through much harder material. By 1980, 75% of our Canadian-produced bits were of the new impregnated type and Longyear was manufacturing diamond bits in more than eight countries.
Today, there are many marketers of diamond bits and very few of those companies have invested in bit development. Boart Longyear is dedicated to the development of diamond bit technology. You can see it in our designs, such as the patented Stage®, Razorcut® and Longyear® innovations. You can trust us to deliver continued innovation.
Boart Longyear and Genuine Q™ Wireline System
The Schlumberger brothers first used wireline logging to assess oil reservoirs in 1927. By the late ‘40’s, Boart Longyear understood the savings that could be generated if a similar system could be developed for thin-walled coring applications.
After years of development, the first coring wireline system patent, including a new drill rod, was awarded to Boart Longyear, US#2,829,868 in 1958. The Boart Longyear engineering design team continued to refine the initial wireline system, resulting in the launch of the patented Q™ wireline system in 1966. The original Q coring system has remained the most trusted technology in the business for 60 years.
When you need the best and most efficient sonic tooling, look no further than Boart Longyear. High-quality precision steels, along with special heat treatment processes, provide unsurpassed stability, straightness, and durability for the sonic drill string assembly.
Stringent manufacturing standards and ISO certification make sonic tooling from Boart Longyear the right choice for every sonic drilling project.