Case studies & testimonials

During the 2015 Sudbury Basin drilling program, Vale Brownfield Exploration contracted TECH
Directional Services to use their proprietary technology to steer diamond drill holes in Sudbury. During the year they completed a series of Devidrill cuts on numerous drill holes.

TECH Directional has been supplying directional drilling services to Vale’s Voisey’s Bay site since the fall of 2010. This service is critical to the success of our infill/delineation program where we have to maintain precise control on our drill holes.

Thank you very much for your expertise, your talented employees George Small and Randy Nicholls and the use of the Devidrill system. We have turned some heads with this excellent equipment.

In February of 2013 Shell Canada undertook a delineation coring program to understand the shallow but complex geology beneath the Ft. McMurray oil sands. The program was unique in that the bore holes were drilled from an angle 26 degrees off horizontal using a core rig mounted on a custom sub base to achieve the steep angle.

Application of the Devico directional drilling technology on targeting deep extensions at our KSM gold-copper porphyry project in B.C. saved considerable drilling time by ensuring targeted zones were hit, and avoiding re-drilling of thousands of meters of barren rock above the mineralized zones by wedging and steering daughter holes.

During an extensive drilling program in 2008, Rubicon Minerals Corporation contracted TECH Directional Services to complete a series of ‘Devidrill’ cuts on a number of land based and barge based drill holes.